Mediation and Immediacy : : A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion /

Mediation and Immediacy : : A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion / / ed. by Massimo Leone, Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle.

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 immedi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bernoussi, Mohamed,
Cummins, Fred,
Heritier, Paolo,
Jackson, Bernard S.,
Janowitz, Naomi,
Krech, Volkhard,
Leone, Massimo,
Marmo, Costantino,
Okada, Atsushi,
Pace, Enzo,
Ponzo, Jenny,
Sherwin, Richard K.,
Volli, Ugo,
Wilke, Annette,
Yelle, Robert A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Leone, Massimo,
Ponzo, Jenny,
Yelle, Robert A.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 62
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 302 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures
  • Introduction: Mediation and immediacy, a key issue for the semiotics of religion
  • Part I: Classical traditions
  • Immediacy and mediation in Philo’s interpretation of divine names
  • “Anì velo mal’akh”: Are angels in the Torah a sort of medium?
  • The angel as an intercultural medium
  • Medieval theology and the theory of signs
  • Transcending the body: The semiotics of an out-of-body experience reported by Mechthild of Magdeburg
  • The supremacy of the Qur’anic sign and its impacts on the Arabic Muslim culture
  • Arguments for immediacy and mediation in classical Advaita-Vedānta
  • Part II: Contemporary movements
  • Religious-artistic epiphanies in 20th-century literature: Joyce, Claudel, Weil, C.S. Lewis, Rebora, and Papini
  • On vain repetitions: The enactment of collective subjectivities through speaking in unison
  • The other Buddha: Leaving monasteries, fighting the enemy
  • Part III: Religious legal systems
  • Mediation and immediacy in the Jewish legal tradition
  • The doodling of Jesus: A semiotic inquiry into the rhetoric of immediacy
  • Legal theology and communication: The meaning of Christian eschatology between immanence and transcendence in contemporary social sciences
  • Post-secular jurisprudence: A visual semiotics of the sacred source of law’s authority
  • Contributors
  • Index

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