Interpreting Religious Symbols in a Public Context
Taking Robert Cumming Neville's theology of symbolic engagement as a starting point, the paper ventures into a case study comparing the Norwegian civil marriage ceremony and partnership registration formulas. Albeit marriage functions as a religious symbol in the civil ceremony, it is argued that the ceremony itself leans on religious community in providing the public imagination necessary to engage the symbol in transforming ways.
Publisert i Hermeneutics, Compassion and Religious Boundaries, 2009
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