 | William G. McLoughlin - 1978 - 260 sider
...Clifford Geertz describes in his essay "Religion as a Cultural System." "Sacred symbols," Geertz says, "function to synthesize a people's ethos — the tone,...and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic mood — and their world view — the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their... | |
 | Ivan G. Marcus - 1981 - 222 sider
...self, of society. It contains their most comprehensive ideas of order." Ethos, on the other hand, "is the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude towards themselves and their world that life reflects." Geertz goes on... | |
 | Drew Westen - 1985 - 460 sider
...instructive. The ethos is comprised of the moral, aesthetic, and evaluative elements of culture; it is "the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude toward themselves and their world that life reflects" (1973, p. 127).... | |
 | Wayne A. Meeks - 1986 - 188 sider
...Geertz, "Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols."4 "A people's ethos," he writes, "is the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude toward themselves and their world that life reflects." "Their world view,"... | |
 | Helen Hardacre - 1988 - 244 sider
...22ff. Clifford Geertz makes a useful distinction between "world view" and "ethos." "A people's ethos is the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude toward themselves and their world that life reflects. Their world view... | |
 | Ira Chernus, Edward Tabor Linenthal - 1989 - 238 sider
...further examples, see Chapter 4. 18. Geertz, Interpretation, p. 113. Geertz defined a people's ethos as "the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude toward themselves and their world that life reflects." The "world view... | |
 | Michael C. Kearl - 1989 - 542 sider
...called the cultural ethos, which, according to anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1973, p. 127), includes "the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude toward themselves and their world that life reflects." It shapes their... | |
 | Hans Gerhard Kippenberg, Yme B. Kuiper, Andy F. Sanders - 1990 - 428 sider
...the cognitive, existential aspects have been designated by the term 'world view'. A people's ethos is the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood: it is the underlying attitude towards themselves and their world that life reflects. Their world view... | |
 | H. Barbara Boudewijnse, Hans-Günter Heimbrock - 1990 - 216 sider
...net which captivates particular elements in reality: "Sacred symbols function (o synthesize a peoples ethos - the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetical style and mood - and their world view • the picture they have of the ways things in sheer... | |
 | Clarence R. Bolt - 1992 - 196 sider
...and coherent relationship which assumes both purpose and direction. Geertz notes that 'sacred symbols function to synthesize a people's ethos - the tone,...its moral and aesthetic style and mood - and their world-view - the picture they have of the way things in sheer actuality are, their most comprehensive... | |
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A people's ethos is the tone, character, and quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood; it is the underlying attitude toward themselves and their world that life reflects. Their world view is their picture of the way things in sheer... 
