Mediation and Immediacy
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Edited by:
Jenny Ponzo
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.
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Part I: Classical traditions
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Ugo Volli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Atsushi Okada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Costantino Marmo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Transcending the body: The semiotics of an out-of-body experience reported by Mechthild of Magdeburg
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Mohamed Bernoussi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Annette Wilke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part II: Contemporary movements
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Fred Cummins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Enzo Pace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part III: Religious legal systems
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Bernard S. Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Massimo Leone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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