SFB 1475:  Metaphors of Religion. Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use

• Subject Area: Humanities
• Term: since 2022
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441126958

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A01 - Path and guidance: Interpretations of Qur’anic metaphors of space and move-ment in the Tafsīr literature (Project Head Büssow, Johann )
• A02 - The kinesis of immortality. Spatial-kinetic metaphors and Daoist salvation (Project Head Di Giacinto, Ph.D., Licia )
• A03 - Metaphors and their semantic fields in texts of the ‘experience instruction’ gen-res of Tibetan Buddhism (Project Head Meinert, Carmen )
• A05 - The human body as metaphor of the divine: Anthropomorphism in South Asian religious traditions (Project Head Pons, Jessie )
• B02 - Beyond self-cultivation: Moments of transcendence in ego-documents of Kore-an Confucian provenance (Project Head Eggert, Marion )
• B03 - Metaphors of the self: On the connection between self-constitution and religion in the Hebrew Bible (Project Head Frevel, Christian )
• B05 - Embodiment outside the body? Out-of-body experiences in a cognitive and so-cial science perspective (Project Head Krech, Volkhard )
• B06 - Grammar as a religious metaphor (Project Head Glei, Reinhold F. )
• C03 - Metaphors of everyday life (Project Head Simonis, Linda )
• C04 - Metaphor and social positioning in religious online forums (Project Heads Elwert, Frederik ;  Scheffler, Tatjana )
• C05 - Metaphorizing the metaphors: The development of the Zoroastrian language of eschatology (Project Head Rezania, Kianoosh )
• C06 - Jesus and Mary as divine healers in service for the salvation of the faithful: A mixed-method analysis of medical metaphorizations in Medieval German texts (Project Heads Dipper, Stefanie ;  Elwert, Frederik )
• INF - Metaphor Base Camp: Providing the common data basis and advancing digital research methods for religious metaphors (Project Heads Dipper, Stefanie ;  Elwert, Frederik ;  Krech, Volkhard ;  Tonne, Danah )
• MGK - Integrated research training group: Graduate school of metaphor and religion (GSMR) (Project Head Rezania, Kianoosh )
• WiKoÖ - Religion and metaphor in contemporary media realities: What can we learn from the humanities? (Project Head Karis, Tim )
• Z - Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Center (Project Head Krech, Volkhard )

• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Volkhard Krech