The doodling of Jesus: A semiotic inquiry into the rhetoric of immediacy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Figures IX
5. Introduction: Mediation and immediacy, a key issue for the semiotics of religion 1
6. Part I: Classical traditions
7. Immediacy and mediation in Philo’s interpretation of divine names 19
8. “Anì velo mal’akh”: Are angels in the Torah a sort of medium? 33
9. The angel as an intercultural medium 49
10. Medieval theology and the theory of signs 67
11. Transcending the body: The semiotics of an out-of-body experience reported by Mechthild of Magdeburg 85
12. The supremacy of the Qur’anic sign and its impacts on the Arabic Muslim culture 111
13. Arguments for immediacy and mediation in classical Advaita-Vedānta 125
14. Part II: Contemporary movements
15. Religious-artistic epiphanies in 20th-century literature: Joyce, Claudel, Weil, C.S. Lewis, Rebora, and Papini 149
16. On vain repetitions: The enactment of collective subjectivities through speaking in unison 165
17. The other Buddha: Leaving monasteries, fighting the enemy 179
18. Part III: Religious legal systems
19. Mediation and immediacy in the Jewish legal tradition 207
20. The doodling of Jesus: A semiotic inquiry into the rhetoric of immediacy 231
21. Legal theology and communication: The meaning of Christian eschatology between immanence and transcendence in contemporary social sciences 247
22. Post-secular jurisprudence: A visual semiotics of the sacred source of law’s authority 263
23. Contributors 289
24. Index 295