An Experimental Method for the Study of Time Perception at the Individual Level-with Reference to a Case Study in a Catholic Community, Mani, Yucatan, Mexico-(2)

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Religion provides a socially or culturally shared set of cognitions which enable members of a society to interpret real experiences in many-sided aspects of life and to provide a disciplined guide to such cognitive problems as self-identity or goals in life. Religious phenomena trace their origin back to primeval antiquity and religion preserves various relics of ancient days. The aim of this paper is to describe and clarify several aspects of time perception complex of a small Catholic community, Mani from a working hypothetical concept. The main findings are as follows: Their time perception, as our model shows, extends more in the past than in the future. Their preferences for specified time, day of the week, or month as well as their responses to the six time divisions for our study prove that their time perception or self-recognition is achieved in terms of Major Time and Minor Time, and that a tendency to positive acceptance of rituals or festivals is expected in this case. The responses to the photos of Virgin Mary and Christ-child by the interviewees show that religion endures for centuries on the basis of extermely everlasting perpetuity of religious symbols. They associated the Crucifixion with the atonement for the sins in the past and the salvation of man, for which Jesus Christ died.

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