• Sociocosmic

    Origin

    - + socio + cosmic;

    Full definition of sociocosmic

    Adjective

    sociocosmic

    1. Pertaining to the order of the universe and one's consequent obligations to and role in society.
      • 1978 , James L. Peacock , Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam , Though conceptualized by introspection and terminology, this identity is not differentiated from a sociocosmic order that defines self as status and status as cosmology; through speech, posture, and manners, the entire psycho-sociocosmic complex is maintained.
      • 1991 , Deborah A. Soifer , The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana , The notion of the smaller or sociocosmic universe is integrally tied to the Puranic notion of dharma.
      • 1993 , Yves Bonnefoy , Asian Mythologies , The sociocosmic order (dharma) can be maintained only through sacrifice, which nourishes the gods of heaven, who in turn cause rain to fall on the earth at the right time; it is thus as a result of sacrifice that plants grow and that animals -- notably the cow -- and men can be nourished, and that they can prosper, and that they can offer sacrifices.
      • 1993 , Darrell J. Fasching , The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia? , In the second case, the religious symbol ties or binds the self not to the social order but to self-transcendence. In such cases the self is understood not as a mirror of the sociocosmic order but as reality radically open to the infinite.
      • 1997 , Cheryl Claassen & ‎Rosemary A. Joyce , Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica , ...one that is derived from similar Southeast Asian societies but that also contains within itself the explanation of why Maya sociocosmic classification differed in essential respects from its Asian counterpart.
      • 2001 , Stephen Sharot , A Comparative Sociology of World Religions , It has remained a cardinal principle that only Brahmans have the authority to perform the most important rituals that preserve and renew the sociocosmic order.
      • 2004 , Michael Winkelman & ‎Philip M. Peek , Divination and Healing: Potent Vision , To fear the witch "within" refers to the patient's feelings of isolation and exclusion in relation to the sociocosmic environment.
      • 2010 , Heup Young Kim , Christ and the Tao , Furthermore, this vision invites us to thematize the sociocosmic biography of the exploited life, creatively pushing beyond the dialectical sociobiography of minjung and the innocent anthropocosmic vision.
      • 2012 , Carlos Fausto , Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia , First, I provide a synthetic formulation of the contrast between the two types of sociocosmic regimes that I have been developing at various points of the book.
      • 2013 , Joseph Kitagawa , The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture , Thus the Gita champions the theory of varnasramadbarma as upholding the sociocosmic order.
      • 2014 , Julian F. Woods , Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata , The apparent contradiction involved in accommodating a collective sociocosmic process unrelated to human conduct to the karma of individual action is never fully resolved.
      • 2014 , Suzanne Oakdale & ‎Magnus Course , Fluent Selves , The sociocosmic field binds the bodies of living humans to myriad collectivities of doubles and other people, dead ancestors and yovevo spirits.
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