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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.
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.
This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of
Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels
published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the
complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the
biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious
language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and
transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic
notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.
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