title: Professions as Religious Metaphors: Introduction
abstract: Professions form an important element of social life and communication in any given society. They can therefore be regarded as a significant subset of the domain of the social. The semantics of professions involves the elaboration of social roles and relationships as well as the differentiation of various degrees of artistic competence and stages of accomplishment of the craft. Due to these aspects, professions appear to be particularly apt to function as source domains of religious metaphors. T
journal: Metaphor papers