Don Sherman Grant II, Symbols, Stories, and Practices: New Empirical Directions in the Study of Religious Meaning, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Spring, 2001), pp. 233-251 Free online ...

Abstract. We can distinguish three forms of personification: Sensualizing personification, in which a presumed spiritual entity is presented in a material form; animating personification, in which a ...