Buch, Deutsch, Band 007, 555 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 944 g
Vorstellungs- und Sinneswelten in Religion und Kultur
Buch, Deutsch, Band 007, 555 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 944 g
Reihe: Critical Studies in Religion/Religionswissenschaft
ISBN: 978-3-525-54031-2
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht
No religion without imagination! The contributors to this volume look at a broad range of subjects and theories concerning a previously unjustly neglected category in religion and religious studies. Imagination – the human ability to form mental images or to envision things – influences our lives and experiences in many ways, for the most part without our realizing it. It is part of our subjective awareness, our collective consciousness – especially in religious matters. The contributors to this volume offer a wide range of subjects and theories on the central role imagination plays in religions and their sensual embodiments. It presents a number of examples from various cultures as well as the numerous theories behind them, showing imagination to be a heretofore unjustly neglected category in religion and religious studies.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
The powers of Imagination influence our perception and experience in manifold ways. Mostly we are not even aware of this. Imagination works in the subjective and the collective sphere and plays a very decisive role in religions. “There is no religion without imagination!” – This thesis is broadly discussed in the volume with examples from different cultures and thorough theoretical reflection. A special focus is religious aesthetics – the powers of imagination to convert sensory worlds into worlds of meaning and affection, and worlds of meaning into sensory worlds.>
