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

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Mediation and Immediacy

A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion

Edited by: Jenny Ponzo , Robert A. Yelle and Massimo Leone

Volume 4 in the series Semiotics of Religion

Volume 62 in the series Religion and Reason

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690347

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jenny Ponzo, Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Italy and Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Mediation and immediacy, a key issue for the semiotics of religion Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle and Massimo Leone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Classical traditions
Immediacy and mediation in Philo’s interpretation of divine names Naomi Janowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
“Anì velo mal’akh”: Are angels in the Torah a sort of medium? Ugo Volli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
The angel as an intercultural medium Atsushi Okada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Medieval theology and the theory of signs Costantino Marmo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Transcending the body: The semiotics of an out-of-body experience reported by Mechthild of Magdeburg Volkhard Krech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The supremacy of the Qur’anic sign and its impacts on the Arabic Muslim culture Mohamed Bernoussi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Arguments for immediacy and mediation in classical Advaita-Vedānta Annette Wilke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part II: Contemporary movements
Religious-artistic epiphanies in 20th-century literature: Joyce, Claudel, Weil, C.S. Lewis, Rebora, and Papini Jenny Ponzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
On vain repetitions: The enactment of collective subjectivities through speaking in unison Fred Cummins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The other Buddha: Leaving monasteries, fighting the enemy Enzo Pace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part III: Religious legal systems
Mediation and immediacy in the Jewish legal tradition Bernard S. Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
The doodling of Jesus: A semiotic inquiry into the rhetoric of immediacy Massimo Leone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Legal theology and communication: The meaning of Christian eschatology between immanence and transcendence in contemporary social sciences Paolo Heritier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Post-secular jurisprudence: A visual semiotics of the sacred source of law’s authority Richard K. Sherwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of the disciplines: religious studies, theology, semiotics, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 302
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 22
- Coloured Illustrations: 14
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Religion; Semiotics; Mediation; Communication

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110690347

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110690323