An example of a simile drawing upon scientific concepts
"What these diverse systems [of religion] had in common was not the specific content of their message, which deepened in its particularity as it expanded in its scope, but the formal pattern, the generic mode, in which it was cast. In all of them, the sense of sacredness was gathered up, like so many scattered rays of light brought to focus in a lens, from the countless tree spirits and garden spells through which it was vaguely diffused, and was concentrated in a nucleate (though not necessarily monotheistic) concept of the divine. The world was, in Weber's famous phrase, disenchanted: the locus of sacredness was removed from the rooftrees, graveyards, and road-crossings of everyday life and put, in some sense, into another realm where dwelt Jahweh, Logos, Tao, or Brahman."
Clifford Geertz (2000) 'Internal conversion' in contemporary Bali (first published 1964), in The Interpretation of Cultures. Selected Essays. 2nd Edition. New York. Basic Books
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