Mediation and Immediacy | A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion
Jenny Ponzo (u. a.)
ISBN 10: 3110690322 ISBN 13: 9783110690323
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Mediation and Immediacy | A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion | Jenny Ponzo (u. a.) | Buch | X | Englisch | 2024 | De Gruyter | EAN 9783110690323 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 118493042
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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, University of Turin, Italy and Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich, Germany.
Jenny Ponzo, Massimo Leone, Universität Turin, Italien und Robert A. Yelle, Universität München, Deutschland.
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