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SUMMARY:Metaphor Talk
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Monika Kopytowska (University of Lodz)\n\n"Worshipping in 
 “Super-time” and “Super-space”: Metaphors\, Proximization\, and Re
 ligious Practice"\n\nBringing together the cognitive\, social and emotiona
 l aspects of religious practice in the digital age this paper presents a t
 heoretical framework for understanding the religion-language-media interfa
 ce\, and\, in particular\, the role which metaphors play in creating the s
 acred space\, sacred time and a sense of communion. In our Media Proximiza
 tion Approach (Kopytowska 2018\, 2022)\, we argue that technology allows s
 eekers of communion and spiritual experience to satisfy their compulsion o
 f proximity with both the sacred and other believers/worshippers\, enablin
 g proximization on a vertical and horizontal level respectively. In the ce
 nter of this mechanism – cognitive in nature and necessarily social in i
 ts implications – we place the techno-discursive manipulations of severa
 l dimensions of distance\, viz. spatial\, temporal\, epistemic\, axiologic
 al\, and emotional ones\, contingent\, among others\, on metaphorical conc
 eptualizations and technological affordances of various media\, which make
  it possible to “transport” believers into “worship spaces” of all
  kinds and offer them a sense of communal experience.\n\nKopytowska\, M. 2
 022. Proximizing the Sacred: On Symbols\, Rituals\, and Distance\, In M. K
 opytowska\, A. Gałkowski\, L. Massimo (eds.)\, Thought-Sign-Symbol. Cross
 -Cultural Representations of Religion\,  59-87. Frankfurt am main: Peter 
 Lang Publishing.\nKopytowska\, M. 2018. The televisualization of ritual: s
 pirituality\, spatiality and co-presence in religious broadcasting. In P. 
 Chilton and M. Kopytowska (eds.)\, Religion\, language and human mind\, 43
 7–473. New York: Oxford University Press.
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/metaphor-talk-24-en-1/
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