Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence : : Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond /

Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence : : Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond / / ed. by Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle.

In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars uses history, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics to approach Transcendence as a human phenomenon, and shows the unavoidability of thinking with and through the Beyond. Religious experience has often been defined as an encounter with a transc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Abrutyn, Seth,
Benavides, Gustavo,
Krech, Volkhard,
Lehnert, Martin,
Leone, Massimo,
Ponzo, Jenny,
Volli, Ugo,
Wilkens, Katharina,
Yelle, Robert A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ponzo, Jenny,
Yelle, Robert A.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 321 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures
  • Introduction: How to talk about transcendence
  • On the physiology of transcendence
  • Reconceptualizing the Axial Age as the re-emergence of transcendence: Why religio-cultural entrepreneurship matters
  • Talking (and arguing) with transcendence
  • Transcendence without difference? Reflections on the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā
  • Transcendence and imagination: Some thoughts on two related concepts in the context of spirit possession
  • Beyond meaning: Prospections of Suprematist semiotics
  • The immanence/transcendence distinction at work: The case of the Apostles’ Creed
  • Adveniat regnum tuum: Revolutionary paths toward religious transcendence in Italian contemporary narrative
  • Contributors
  • Index

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