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Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond

Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond

Yelle, Robert A.
Ponzo, Jenny

Hardcover

Series: Religion and Reason, Book 61

PhilosophyComparative Religion

ISBN10: 3110688220
ISBN13: 9783110688221
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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