Phenomenology and Mind

No. 2 (2012): Making the Social World: Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality, and Normativity
Session 1. Social Ontology

Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists

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  • Filip Buekens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19625

Published 2016-11-27

Keywords

  • sacred objects,
  • institutions,
  • error theories,
  • covert institutional facts,
  • witchcraft

How to Cite

Buekens, F. (2016). Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists. Phenomenology and Mind, (2), 58–66. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19625
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Abstract

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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