Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond

Edited by: Robert A. Yelle and Jenny Ponzo

Volume 61 in the series Religion and Reason

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688276

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About this book

In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars uses history, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics to approach Transcendence as a human phenomenon, and shows the unavoidability of thinking with and through the Beyond. Religious experience has often been defined as an encounter with a transcendent God. Yet humans arguably have always tried to get outside or beyond themselves and society. The drive to exceed some limit or condition of finitude is an eduring aspect of culture, even in a "disenchanted" society that may have cut off most paths of access to the Beyond. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the humanity of Transcendence in various ways: as an effort to get beyond our crass physical materiality; as spiritual entrepreneurship; as the ecstasy of rituals of possession; and as a literary, aesthetic, and semiotic event. These efforts build from a shared conviction that Transcendene is thoroughly human, and accordingly avoid purely confessional and parochial approches while taking seriously the various claims and behavioral expressions of traditions in which Transcendence has been understood in theological terms.

Author information

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

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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: How to talk about transcendence Robert A. Yelle and Jenny Ponzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
On the physiology of transcendence Gustavo Benavides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Reconceptualizing the Axial Age as the re-emergence of transcendence: Why religio-cultural entrepreneurship matters Seth Abrutyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Talking (and arguing) with transcendence Ugo Volli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Transcendence without difference? Reflections on the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā Martin Lehnert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Transcendence and imagination: Some thoughts on two related concepts in the context of spirit possession Katharina Wilkens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Beyond meaning: Prospections of Suprematist semiotics Massimo Leone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
The immanence/transcendence distinction at work: The case of the Apostles’ Creed Volkhard Krech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Adveniat regnum tuum: Revolutionary paths toward religious transcendence in Italian contemporary narrative Jenny Ponzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of religious studies, sociology, semiotics, history, anthropology, philosophy, literature
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 321
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Transcendence; immanence; Axial Age; semiotics

eBook

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110688276

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110688221