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

English · Hardback

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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.

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Jenny Ponzo, Massimo Leone, Universität Turin, Italien und Robert A. Yelle, Universität München, Deutschland.

Product details

Assisted by Robert A Yelle (Editor), Massimo Leone (Editor), Jenny Ponzo (Editor), Robert A. Yelle (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 06.02.2024
 
EAN 9783110690323
ISBN 978-3-11-069032-3
No. of pages 302
Dimensions 162 mm x 23 mm x 236 mm
Weight 572 g
Illustrations 22 b/w and 14 col. ill., 1 b/w tbl.
Series Religion and Reason
Semiotics of Religion
Religion and Reason, 62
Subject Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous

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