Embodiment outside the body? Out-of-body experiences in a cognitive and so-cial science perspective (B05)

• Subject Area: Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441126958

The research project will focus on metaphors that occur in descriptions of out-of-body experi-ences. These will be taken out of textual sources from different cultures of antiquity, namely from the ancient Near East, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, China, and the Hebrew Bible. The pro-ject aims to bring into conversation the CRC’s communicative approach with cognitive approach-es, which are relevant both in general metaphor studies and in the study of religion. Embodiment and metaphor form the core concepts, the theoretical scope and viability of which will be exam-ined in a triangulation between cognitive and social science methods.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1475: Metaphors of Religion. Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Volkhard Krech