a key issue for the semiotics of religion Ponzo, Jenny. Yelle, Robert A. Leone, Massimo 1975- text bibliography gw Berlin De Gruyter [2021] 2021 monographic eng

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x, 302 p. : ill. (partly col.) '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.' Part I: Classical Traditions. Immediacy and mediation in Philo's interpretation of divine names / Naomi Janowitz -- "Anì velo mal'akh": Are angels in the Torah a sort of medium? / Ugo Volli -- The angel as an intercultural medium / Atsushi Okada -- Medieval theology and the theory of signs / Costantino Marmo -- Transcending the body: The semiotics of an out-of-body experience reported by Mechthild of Magdeberg / Volkhard Krech -- The supremacy of the Qur'anic sign and its impacts on the Arabic Muslim culture / Mohamed Bernoussi -- Arguments for immediacy and mediation in classical Advaita-Vedānta / Annette Wilke -- Part II: Contemporary Movements. Religious-artistic epiphanies in 20th-century literature: Joyce, Claudel, Weil, C.S. Lewis, Rebora, and Papini / Jenny Ponzo -- On vain repetitions: The enactment of collective subjectivities through speaking in unison / Fred Cummins -- The other Buddha: Leaving monasteries, fighting the enemy / Enzo Pace -- Part III: Religious Legal Systems. Mediation and immediacy in the Jewish legal tradition / Bernard S. Jackson -- The doodling of Jesus: A semiotic inquiry into the rhetoric of immediacy / Massimo Leone -- Legal theology and communication: The meaning of Christian eschatology between immanence and transcendence in contemporary social sciences / Paolo Heritier -- Post-secular jurisprudence: A visual semiotics of the sacred source of law's authority / Richard K. Sherwin edited by Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle, and Massimo Leone. Includes bibliographical references and index. Experience (Religion) Holy, The Angels Ritual Symbolism Religious aspects Communication Religious aspects Semiotics Religious aspects BL60 .M435 2021 9783110690323 (hbk.) 3110690322 (hbk.) 210205 on1227473824