Religion

How do religious symbols and rituals work? What about Religious art?

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Religious symbols, rituals, and art

To understand how religious symbols, rituals, and art work it is important to understand the concept of religion which basic idea is what an individual thinks what he/she is really deep within. Religion always assumes a reality other than the visible and is submerged in the depths of consciousness.

It is necessary to express a religious experience with symbols because an experience must be symbolize in order to be completed as experience. Symbols as religious expression because religion implies to realms that need to be bridge and related. Symbols are used as a bridge that brings together an event or experience on the past and the present, symbols help others to relate and understand more easily the experience or event. Religious symbols are not only crosses, statues or images they are also concepts, institutions or practices, anything that can be used as a bridge; sound and words can also function as symbols.

To understand better how symbolism works it’s important to know the difference between symbol and sings. A sign stands for something else, such as a traffic sign, it has no power over anyone and works as a remainder of social responsibilities; a symbol is something visible expressing something invisible such as the Eucharist (Holy Communion). Signs usually don’t have a lot of essential meaning such as coffee signs, stop sings and restrooms sings. Symbols can have many meanings and it can be a big part of a culture.

Rites are a practical form of religious performance that involves an arrangement of symbols that such as hearing, smell, touch and taste; rituals are a pattern of words and actions through which a rite is carried out. A rite is recommended to be made by a religious specialist such a shaman or priest. A rite has many stages such as the opening which is the...