This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as spheres of religious beliefs and practices. The volume is an outcome of the Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco's keynote address during his visit at the University of Lódz in 2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into contemporary semiosphere can…mehr
This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as spheres of religious beliefs and practices. The volume is an outcome of the Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco's keynote address during his visit at the University of Lódz in 2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into contemporary semiosphere can be found in Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Signs, Signification and Communication and Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres and Representations, published by Peter Lang.
Monika Kopytowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Lódz, Poland. Her research interests revolve around the interface of language and cognition, identity, and the pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of religion, ethnicity, and conflict. Artur Galkowski is Associate Professor of Italian and French linguistics at the University of Lódz, Poland. His research interests cover various issues in onomastics, semiotics, and translation. Massimo Leone is Tenured Full Professor of Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy. His research focuses on semiotics, religious studies, and visual studies.
Inhaltsangabe
interface of language, culture and religion - semiotic nature of religious practices, representations and artefacts - religious symbolism - interface of the verbal and the visual - religious discourse as product and process
interface of language, culture and religion - semiotic nature of religious practices, representations and artefacts - religious symbolism - interface of the verbal and the visual - religious discourse as product and process
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