Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Kocku Von Stuckrad
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004184228

Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion.

Symbols of the Sacred

Symbols of the Sacred
Author: Louis K. Dupré
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780802847485

Symbols of the Sacred gathers four classic essays by Louis Dupr on the role of symbols in our understanding of the sacred and on their fundamental importance to religious consciousness. A leading philosopher of religion, Dupr here discusses the nature of religious symbols, the importance of language for capturing symbolic meaning, the ancient link between art and expressions of the sacred, and the vital relationship between religious symbol and myth. The volume concludes with a powerful reflection on the innate capacity of human minds to grasp the transcendent. Elegantly expressed, conversant with a wide range of thinkers, and marked by a lifetime of reflection on the subject, Symbols of the Sacred offers profound insights into the religious dimension of human life.

Images and Symbols

Images and Symbols
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0691238340

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

Symbolism in Religion and Literature

Symbolism in Religion and Literature
Author: Rollo May
Publisher: New York : G. Braziller
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1960
Genre: Literature
ISBN:

A collection of essays examining symbolism in religion and literature.

Thought-Sign-Symbol

Thought-Sign-Symbol
Author: Lukasz Bogucki
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Signs and symbols
ISBN: 9783631844977

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 Łódź 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.