...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...

...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...

...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)....

...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,"...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...