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Semiotics provides not only a methodological toolk it but also a conceptual framework for understanding religion as a system of signs and meanings. Religious rituals, myths, texts, symbols and embodied practices can be studied as semiotic processes through which communities generate, transmit, and transform experiences of the sacred. This perspective makes it possible to identify both universal patterns of religious signification and their culturally specific articulations. In this way, semiotics offers a scientific bridge between theological discourse and secular scholarship, allowing for comparative analysis that respects religious diversity while uncovering shared structures of meaning.