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¹Department of Communication Disorders at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.

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|December 7, 2013

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Religious symbols are crucial for communication, integration, and wholeness. This study proposes questions to analyze how symbols shape experience, self-identity, and personal reorientation within traditions.

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Area of Science:

Religious Studies
Sociology of Religion
Psychology of Religion

Background:

Symbols are fundamental to religious traditions.
Their role in communication, integration, and wholeness requires critical examination.
Understanding symbol function can enhance religious experience.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a critique for enhancing the potential of religious symbols.
To analyze how symbols facilitate integration and wholeness.
To explore the relationship between symbols, experience, and self-identity.

Main Methods:

Proposes four key questions to analyze the function of religious symbols.
Focuses on the precise experience evoked by a symbol.
Examines the symbol's relation to the individual and self-identity.

Main Results:

Symbols focus specific experiences.
Symbols are integral to personal identity formation.
Symbols can reorient an individual's perspective.

Conclusions:

The critique offers a framework for understanding symbol efficacy.
Contemporary changes in Eucharistic liturgy provide a case study.
Religious symbols have a profound impact on personal and communal integration.