Defined and quoted

I have recently been digging my way through Clifford Geertz "The Interpretation of Culture," a collection of essays on anthropology and understanding cultural systems. It is a fabulouse book and I have enjoyed both the content and the extended, complex sentences that the author uses. Here are two of my favorite definitions so far, with some notes or translations of my own.

Definition I

Culture is historically transmitted patterns of meanings embodied in a symbols, a system of inherited coneceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.


Definition II
Religion is (1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by (3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existance and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.