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  1. Clifford Geertz,The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (New York: Basic Books, 1973), pp. 87–125, 126–141.

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  2. Ibid., p. 91

  3. Most of the discussion in this section is drawn from an essay to be published as a chapter in a forthcoming book. See also my article: “Homo Religiosus: From a Semotic Point of View,”International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 21.2 (1987): 65–81.

  4. Schubert Ogden correctly notes, however, that “⋯our power to create even the most basic social and cultural structures is a power that belongs to us as a species rather than as individuals. As individual persons, we are all far more the creatures of our societies and cultures than we are their creators.”The Point of Christology (New York: Harper and Row, 1982), p. 162.

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  6. Steven T. Katz, “Language, Epistemology, and Mysticism,” inMysticism and Philosophical Analysis, ed. Steven T. Katz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 26.

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  7. John Baillie,The Interpretation of Religion (New York: Scribner's, 1928), p. 214. His extended discussion (pp. 202–234) of this whole issue is still one of the best.

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  8. Ogden, p. 166.

  9. For a exposition of this notion, see my article: “The Story of Jesus Christ and Process Theology: Some Reflections,”Perspectives in Religious Studies 2.2 (Summer 1984): 139.151.

  10. Langdon Gilkey, “A Theological Voyage with Wilfred Cantwell Smith,”Religious Studies Review 7.4 (October 1981): 304.

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  11. Alfred North Whitehead,Religion in the Making (New York: Macmillan, 1926), p. 32.

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  12. John Baillie,The Sense of the Presence of God (New York: Scribner's 1962), p. 65.

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  13. John Baillie,Our Knowledge of God (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), p. 181.

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  14. Edward Schillebeeckx,On Christian Faith, trans. John Bowden (New York: Crossroad, 1987), pp. 66–67.

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Power, W.L. Religious experience and the Christian experience of God. Int J Philos Relig 31, 177–186 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307991

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