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Mediation and Immediacy: A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion

Mediation and Immediacy: A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion

Ponzo, Jenny
Yelle, Robert A.
Leone, Massimo

Hardcover

LinguisticsComparative Religion

ISBN10: 3110690322
ISBN13: 9783110690323
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 7 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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