Faith and Fiction: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Interplay Between Metaphor and Religion: A Selection of Papers from the 25th Laud-Symposium of the ... Papers on Research in Language and Culture,) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0820436240 ISBN 13: 9780820436241

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Faith and Fiction is a collection of essays which partly stems from the 25th LAUD-Symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion' (University of Duisburg, April 1-5, 1997). It investigates the relationship between religious experience and the use of metaphors and thus explores the tensions between faith and fiction. Herein, special attention is paid to the type of situation in which the confrontation of a community or an individual with religion is not self-evident or even discordant. In order to address the diversity of the problem area, the volume opts for an interdisciplinary approach. Section I analyses 'religious metaphors' from the viewpoint of contemporary linguistics. In section II, the significance of metaphors in a 'meta-religious' discourse is considered. The philosophical dialogue with religion and metaphor is discussed in section III, and the final section submits religious poems to a formal and interpretative examination.

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About the Author:

Roslyn M. Frank, University of Iowa, USA; Rene Dirven, University of Duisburg, Germany; Tom Ziemke, University of Skovde, Sweden; Enrique Bernardez, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820436240
• ISBN 13: 9780820436241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253
• Editor: Biebuyck Benjamin, Ries John, Dirven Professor Rene