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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religions --- Civilization, Ancient --- 21*015 --- 165.212 --- 165.212 Semiotiek. Pragmatiek. Communicatie. Informatie. Symbool.Symbolisering --- Semiotiek. Pragmatiek. Communicatie. Informatie. Symbool.Symbolisering --- 21*015 Theologie en taal --- Theologie en taal --- Ancient civilization --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion

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'Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to the divine, or to some transcendent dimension of experience, such promises depend for their realization as well on the possibility of mediation, which is necessarily conducted through channels of communication and exchange, such as prayers or sacrifices. An understanding of such modes of semiosis is therefore necessary even and especially when mediation is denied by a tradition in the name of the 'ineffability" of the deity or of mystical experience.'

Experience (Religion) --- Holy, The --- Angels --- Ritual --- Symbolism --- Communication --- Semiotics --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Angelology --- Cherubim --- Cherubs (Spirits) --- Divine messengers --- Seraphim --- Spirits --- Numinous, The --- Sacred, The --- God --- Religion --- Religious experience --- Psychology, Religious --- Religious aspects