Mediation and Immediacy: A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion
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 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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Year:
2020
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Language:
english
Pages:
260
ISBN 10:
3110690357
ISBN 13:
9783110690354
Series:
Semiotics of Religion 4; Religion and Reason 62
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PDF, 37.23 MB
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english, 2020
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