Talk:Symbology (disambiguation)/Archive 1

message: Are there real symbologists, or is the fictional character in the Davinci Code the only one?  Can anyone actually think of something real that's called symbology?  In real life, wouldn't it be called iconography?  24.211.247.191 18:15, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no such thing as symbology. It is just bullshit from the Da Vinci Code. Heraldry is probably the closest thing.
"If you have no imagination, how do you think you will ever truly know God? Because God is imagination, sweety." 
If it is so much BS, then the Merriam Webster has been wrong for decades.  Look it up in a dictionary - they still exist in paper form.  Mine, copyrighted 1981 has an entry for symbology.  Symbology is a real word, although its use to describe an academic office may be questionable.
Symbology is a perfectly valid word; see dictionary.com for a def'n. If anything the Dan Brown usage is questionable and should be included last, if at all.
As a further matter of fact this entry should actually go to Wiktionary. 66.131.51.64 17:13, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Questionable? I think it is pretty well established that it is not an academic discipline. Just because it's a word doesn't mean that it's a discipline. Example: people don't study heraldry at universities, but it's still a word, a practice, if you will. This article should be merged with The DaVinci Code to avoid such confusion. Fuzzform 21:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this real? 

message: June 28, 2006
The definitions, game reference, and discussion below demonstrate that this article started off on the wrong track. There is an academic use and history to the word and concept of "symbology". The original article muddies the water. It is unfortunate that the professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard made such comments. She should have asked the cultural anthropology professors at Harvard before sticking her neck out like that. A search on Google Scholar for "symbology religion anthropology" finds references. Not hard to do.
I've made dramatic changes to the article, and plan to make more when I get a chance.
Sorry to disappoint you, but yes there is such a concept in academia. 
And, as for whether or not there is anyone who is a symbologist...
How about me?
::Does this mean that "Symbologist" means "Someone who apparently likes Dan Brown novels despite their appallingly simple 'puzzles' (that somehow supposedly confused mankind for millennia), and makes up BS on Wikipedia to try and justify the absurd notions of their esteemed bad author by claiming to be an imaginary sort of professor"? Know how I knew that? Because, I'm an expert in nameyology. 96.225.201.101 (talk) 14:15, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbology - Changes 

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Oppose Symbology is obviously something which requires an article. Your explanation sounds as though you want to move it because the article is off track. If that is the case, change it so it is on track. This sounds more like a job for splitting. All the info about symbology in fiction can go into that article (I suggest you sign up so you can create articles), and then leave this for the more broad meaning of symbology. --liquidGhoul 04:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: .... is the kind of anthropology Turner did.  His use of the word symbology wa sidiosyncratic.  it is a word, not an encyclopedia topic.  This should merge to symbolic anthropology. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 04:23, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbolic anthropology ....