Mediation and Immediacy: A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110690322 ISBN 13 : 9783110690323

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2020

Synopsis

Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to the divine, or to some transcendent dimension of experience, such promises depend for their realization as well on the possibility of mediation, which is necessarily conducted through channels of communication and exchange, such as prayers or sacrifices. An understanding of such modes of semiosis is therefore necessary even and especially when mediation is denied by a tradition in the name of the 'ineffability" of the deity or of mystical experience.

This volume models and promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by asking prominent semioticians, historians of religion and of art, linguists, sociologists of religion, and philosophers of law to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the topic of mediation and immediacy in religious traditions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jenny Ponzo, Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Italy and Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110690322
• ISBN 13: 9783110690323
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Ponzo Jenny, Yelle Robert A., Leone Massimo
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