2016•Phenomenology and MindOpen access

Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists

Filip Buekens

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I develop an account of covert institutional facts by examining sacred objects, witches, shamans and exorcists. I present an account of sacred objects as covert institutional entities, and distinguish between true beliefs that help create the institutional facts and false beliefs about their origin and/or their physical powers.

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Key concepts: Covert, Epistemology, Sociology, Psychology, Social psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics