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SUMMARY:"More Light on the Metaphors of Light"
DTSTART:20241212T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In our Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1475 “Metaphors o
 f Religion”\, we investigate religious meaning-making in language\, and 
 we assume that metaphors have a fundamental share in this process. Two fur
 ther assumptions guide us as broad principles in our research. Firstly\, a
 s a working basis\, we borrow from Lakoff (1986) the model according to wh
 ich in metaphors\, meaning is transferred between semantic domains. Second
 ly\, applying this model to religion\, which cannot directly articulate it
 s ultimate subject (the transcendent)\, we operate with the assumption tha
 t religion in its meaning-making process draws from its semantic environme
 nt (source domain)\, transferring meaning to its own domain (target domain
 ).\n\nIn the conference\, our focus is on light as one of the basal metaph
 ors in religious communication pointing to transcendence. A ground-breakin
 g contribution was Hans Blumenberg’s ([1960] 2010) analysis of light as 
 an absolute metaphor that\, due to its high degree of abstraction lacks a 
 real reference to metaphors in the material world and cannot be explained 
 through other metaphors. He thus declared it to be unsuitable as a source 
 domain. The conference aims to challenge this assumption and invites contr
 ibutions to test Blumenberg’s hypothesis.\n\nWe aim to approach textual 
 and visual sources from different religious traditions and compare them th
 rough the four dimensions: experience\, its bodily dimension\, organizatio
 n into knowledge\, and translation into action (e.g. through rituals or ot
 her means of regulation) as dialectical processes between the mental and t
 he social.\n\nPoster "More Light on the Metaphors of Light"\n\nProgramme 
 flyer "More Light on the Metaphors of Light"\n\nAbstracts "More Light on
  the Metaphors of Light"
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/more-light-on-the-metaphors-of-light/
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