 | American Society of Missiology, Robert Pierce Beaver - 1977 - 452 pages
...meaning of religion as a cultural system in his now classical article by that title (1966) . For Geertz, sacred symbols function "to synthesize a people's...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... | |
 | William G. McLoughlin - 1978 - 260 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael C. Kearl - 1989 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | Ira Chernus, Edward Tabor Linenthal - 1989 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | Gavin I. Langmuir - 1990 - 396 pages
...system is made up of "a cluster of sacred symbols, woven into some sort of ordered whole,"18 and those "sacred symbols function to synthesize a people's...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... | |
 | Henry Idema - 1990 - 278 pages
...ecclesiastical calendar structured the rhythm of life. In a close knit community, Clifford Geertz rightly says, "sacred symbols function to synthesize a people's...quality of their life, its moral and aesthetic style and mood."22 The final social function of religion which here concerns us is the prevention of neurosis.... | |
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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... 
