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Running Head: SYMBOLS IMPORTANT IN RELIGION
SYMBOLS IMPORTANT IN RELIGION 9
SYMBOLS IMPORTANT IN RELIGION
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Religious Symbols and Symbolization 3
Conceptions of Symbolization 4
Symbols Association with Varieties and Meanings 4
The Process of Symbol 6
Symbols and Religious Consciousness 6
Iconography and Religion Symbols 7
Conclusion 8
Reference 9
Introduction
Symbols in religions associate the general characteristics of the symbols with the unusual characteristics it retains as a symbol of religion. Symbol’s figurative quality is the first and basic characteristic that indicates that the internal frame of mind, which is in favour of to the symbol, does not have the symbol rather that is symbolised in it. Perceptibility being symbol’s second characteristics and it indicates that something, which is inherently invisible, idyllic or divine, is made perceptible in the symbol and is in the manner given objectivity. In addition, the final characteristic is the most important one and is symbol’s intrinsic power, which indicates that the symbol has a power in-built within it that discriminates it from the sheer indication, which is ineffective in itself.
Religious Symbols and Symbolization
The word ‘symbol’ is derived from the Greek word ‘symbolon’ meaning contract, token, signs and ways of recognition or identification. With the aid of the fragments of the ‘symbolon’, gatherings to a contract, guests, associates and their host could recognise each other. In its innovative sense, the symbol signified and interconnected an intelligible greater whole by ways of a fragment. The fragment is a kind of documentation guaranteeing the existence of the complete and as a succinct important formulation representing the greater context. Therefore, the symbol is based on the belief of accompaniment. The interconnection of the symbol objects, images, signs, words and motions with certain sensible thoughts in order to express their meanings completely is essentially required. It has both a mysterious and an exoteric or a concealing and a divulging role to this extent. A certain volume of vigorous collaboration is presumed by the unearthing of its meaning and as a rule, it is established on the resolution of a group that approves upon its meaning (Roberts & Yamane, 2015).
Conceptions of Symbolization
A diversity of classifications and associations must inevitably be discriminated in the ancient expansion and contemporary use of the conceptions of symbolization. For conveying of concepts concerning the humankind’s associations to the sacred or holy and to the social or physical world, usages of religious symbols are needed. For example, in Christianity there is a ‘cross’ as religious symbol and in Buddhism there is the ‘dharmachakra’, or wheel of the law, in respect to holy and social world of religion. Various other non-religious kinds of symbols have gained growing importance in the 19th and 20th centuries by those dealing with human’s relations to and conceptualization of the physical world.
The idea of the religious symbols also holds a profusely extensive variation of kinds and connotations. Both religious and non-religious symbols are proposed mainly for the sphere of the originated and include the response of the involvement that it articulates. However, the symbol is not kept concealed in implication rather it even has an instructive personality to some extent. This means it goes further than the evident implication for those who envision its depths. It covers the information and deepest characteristics of its contents yet stipulate the requirement for communication (Firth, 2011).
Symbols Association with Varieties and Meanings
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