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.
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