Conference

Conference | Texture III (Text)


FNO 02/ 40-46

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Together with the previous workshops on 'Signs' and 'Scripture' the present conference aims at scrutinizing the notion of 'texture' as a guiding metaphor for the examination of religious phenomena. Textures might be described as contextualizations of scriptural processes that allow communication between diverse levels of life, connecting for example the material with the mental and the cultural sphere and vice versa. One might also describe the interaction of religious traditions as textural contextualizations which allow, form and execute contact phenomena of transfer and translation.

Textures are internal formative principles to be found within the material examined allowing its interpretation thus introducing a recursive formation which might be described in scientific meta-language. As such they generate the emergence of sense and trigger sensible behavior. Textures thus comprise manifest texts but cannot be reduced to them. One focus of the workshop is the material side of texture as to be found in the religious context.

Affiliated Persons

Photograph of Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech

Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech

Contact

Universitätsstr. 90a
44789  Bochum
Office 3.12
+49 234 32-22395
volkhard.krech@rub.de
Photograph of PD Dr. Knut Martin Stünkel

PD Dr. Knut Martin Stünkel

Contact

Universitätsstr. 90a
44789  Bochum
Office 2.05
+49 234 32-21993
knut.stuenkel@gmx.net