
Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2021
Book
Hardback
IX, 321 pages
978-3-11-068822-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
1 farbige Abbildung, 18 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Tabelle
18 b/w and 1 col. ill., 1 b/w tbl.
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-068822-1 (9783110688221)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

Robert A. Yelle | Jenny Ponzo
Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond
E-Book
09/2021
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€134.95
Available for download

Robert A. Yelle | Jenny Ponzo
Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond
E-Book
09/2021
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€144.95
Available for download
Persons
Robert A. Yelle
, University of Munich, Germany and
Jenny Ponzo
, University of Turin, Italy.