Absent dead, and abstract signs for absence: on the semiotic affordance of religion
I argue that the capacity of the human mind to understand and use signs with arbitrary relations between signifier and signified emerged with abstract signs that signify an irreversibly ‘absent’ (used as a noun here), or the absence of an earlier presence. The cognitive capacity, relevant for religi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 409-428 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Semiotics
/ Abstraction
/ Death
/ Mourning rites
/ Cognition
/ Anthropology of religion
/ Religion
/ History 50000 BC-40000 BC
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Paleaolithic religion
B origin of religion B Dead B Absence B Death B Saussurean signs B religious affordance B death rites |
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