A Study of Catholic Culture Integration of Lowland Maya Communities in Mexico -An Introductory Study of Experimental Methods for Analysis of Space Perception at the Individual Level of a Mayayucatecan Catholic Community,Mani (3)-

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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. The aim of this paper is to describe and clarify several aspects of space perception complex at the individual level from a working hypothetical concept of a small Catholic Community, Mani. The analysis of space perception should be done not only at the individual level but also at the collective level. The results of analysis at the collective level of the history and structure of Catholic church, prayers, blood or territorial relationships, public or private property and so forth have already been showed in other articles. In this paper only the main findings at the individual level are introduced as follows. In Mani, space perception centers around those places which are closely associated with God or sacred beings. In this case, ancient languages and symbols are recognized to be situated at the central zone of the community and the other cultural or social elements are in the peripheral zone. They describe various facts or actual situations of each place and location, the majority of which are adjusted to their ideas deeply related with God or sacred beings. What is more, their space perception is not closed or exclusive, but it is open and continuously expanding with more emphasis on common property than private property as well as on the right to use than the right to own.

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