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Faith and Fiction: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Interplay Between Metaphor and Religion- A Selection of Papers from the 25th Laud-Sym
Contributor(s): Biebuyck, Benjamin (Editor), Dirven, René (Editor), Ries, John (Editor)
ISBN: 3631337604     ISBN-13: 9783631337608
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
OUR PRICE:   $90.44  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1998
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Philosophy
- Foreign Language Study | German
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics
Dewey: 210.14
LCCN: 98031345
Series: Duisberg Papers on Research in Language and Culture,
Physical Information: 253 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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"Faith and Fiction" is a collection of essays which partly stems from the 25th LAUD-Symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion' (University of Duisburg, April 1-5, 1997). It investigates the relationship between religious experience and the use of metaphors and thus explores the tensions between faith and fiction. Herein, special attention is paid to the type of situation in which the confrontation of a community or an individual with religion is not self-evident or even discordant. In order to address the diversity of the problem area, the volume opts for an interdisciplinary approach. Section I analyses 'religious metaphors' from the viewpoint of contemporary linguistics. In section II, the significance of metaphors in a 'meta-religious' discourse is considered. The philosophical dialogue with religion and metaphor is discussed in section III, and the final section submits religious poems to a formal and interpretative examination.