Space, body, and the notion of boundary : A category-theoretical approach to religion
Space, body, and the notion of boundary : A category-theoretical approach to religion
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空间、身体和边界概念：宗教的范畴论方法
作者：
V. Anttonen
本文从文化人类学和宗教认知科学的角度对神圣性问题进行了探讨。赋予“神圣”概念的特定于文化的意义内容并不被视为宗教表现，在这种表现中，某些神学定义的代理人、形而上的实体或超凡脱俗的存在被认为是向人类显现的。取而代之的是，神圣的各种属性被探索为人类在当地地形的特定位置和地形点上划分地点和地点的一般心理能力的代表，以便标记仪式空间并为其维护建立行为规则，以及作为行为规范不可侵犯的特定社会价值和分类的基础。
In the article the issue of sacrality is explored from the points of view of cultural anthropology and cognitive science of religion. Culture-specific contents of meaning bestowed on the notion of "sacred" are not approached as religious representations in which some theologically defined agent, metaphysical entity or otherworldly level of existence is believed to manifest itself to human beings. Instead, various attributions of sacrality are explored as representations of the general mental capacity of human beings to set apart places and sites in specific locations and points of terrain in local topography in order to mark ritual spaces and establish rules of conduct for their maintenance as well as for specific social valus and categorizations on which the inviolability of behavioral norms is based.