Teilprojekt B05

Embodiment außerhalb des Körpers? Außerkörperliche Erfahrungen in kognitions- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive

Im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsprojekts stehen Metaphern in Beschreibungen von „Out-of-Body-Experiences“. Diese werden Texten verschiedener antiker Kulturen entnommen (Alter Orient, Persien, Griechenland, Rom, Indien, China, hebräische Bibel). Das Projekt verbindet den kommunikativen Ansatz des SFBs mit kognitiven Ansätzen, die sowohl in der allgemeinen Metaphernforschung als auch in der Religionswissenschaft relevant sind. ‚Embodiment‘ und Metapher bilden die Kernkonzepte, deren theoretische Reichweite und Tragfähigkeit in einer Triangulation zwischen kognitiven und sozialwissenschaftlichen Methoden untersucht werden.

Publikationen

• Apostel, Lilith, and Volkhard Krech. 2025. How Should the Souls of the Deceased Quench Their Thirst in Hades? A Syntactic-Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of Metaphors on an Orphic Gold Tablet. Metaphor Papers 21. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.413.
• Apostel, Lilith and Volkhard Krech. 2024. “Determining the Realm of the Dead through Metaphors: The Case of Gilgameš, Enkidu, and the Netherworld.” Numen 71 (5-6), 455-499. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-20240014.
• Apostel, Lilith. 2024. Two Is a Company, Three Is a Crowd? A Proposal for the Annotation of Religious Metaphors Based on the Ancient Near Eastern Myths Gilgameš, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and Adapa and the South Wind. Metaphor Papers 8. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.294.
• Krech, Volkhard. 2025a. “How religious space is constituted by means of metaphors. The Buddhist sīmā as a semiotic case study.” Religion 55 (1), 179-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2024.2413331.
• Krech, Volkhard. 2025b. “A Multitude of Hearts: Conceptualizations of ‘Heart’ across Religious Traditions: Introduction to the Special Volume.” In A Multitude of Hearts: Conceptualizations of ’Heart’ Across Religious Traditions, edited by Nikita Artemov and Marion Eggert. Metaphor Papers 29. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.438.520.
• Krech, Volkhard. 2025c. “How transcendence is signified through metaphors. A contribution to the understanding of the emergence of religious meaning.” Semiotica. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0022.
• Krech, Volkhard. 2024a. Religiöse Sinnbildung zwischen Metapher und Metonymie. Metaphor Papers 12. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.318.
• Krech, Volkhard. 2024b. „Die religiöse Metapher als Zeichenprozess.“ Metaphorik.de. Online-Journal zur Metaphorik in Sprache, Literatur, Medien 35, 193-247. https://www.metaphorik.de/de/journal/35/die-religiose-metapher-als-zeichenprozess.html.
• Krech, Volkhard, Tim Karis, and Frederik Elwert. 2023. Metaphors of Religion: A Conceptual Framework. Metaphor Papers 1. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.282.
• Lange, Gerrit. Forthcoming. “The Colors of Music and the Taste of Emotions: rāga and rasa as Synaesthetic Metaphors of Feeling in South Asian Religions.” Numen, Special Issue ‘Doing Emotions’ across Asia. The Practice and Performance of Emotions from Chinese, Tibetan and Indian Perspectives, edited by Mercy Dutta, Esther Maria Guggenmos and Gerrit Lange.
• Lange, Gerrit. 2025a. Naiṇī Mātā – Cobra Mum. Unearthing and Enacting the Feelings of Nine Himalayan Goddesses. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111631493.
• Lange, Gerrit. 2025b. “Metaphors of the Heart As the Locus of Feelings, Thoughts and Transcendence in Ancient and Contemporary Hindu Traditions.” In A Multitude of Hearts: Conceptualizations of ’Heart’ Across Religious Traditions, edited by Nikita Artemov and Marion Eggert. Metaphor Papers 29. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.438.524.
• Lange, Gerrit. 2024a. “Filming Feelings and Deities: The Drama of Incarnation and the Normalcy of Possession”. FID4SA-Repository. https://doi.org/10.11588/fid4sarep.00004641.
• Lange, Gerrit. 2024b. “Creating a Landscape through Myths: The Journey of Naiṇī or Nāginā Devī, a Nine-fold Western Himalayan Hindu Goddess.” In Images and Stories of the Origin(s) of the World and Humankind, edited by Julia Hegewald and Marion Gymnich, 189–214. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• Lange, Gerrit. 2023. “Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations: Studying the Embodied and Enacted Feelings of a Himalayan Hindu Goddess.” Material Religion 19(1), 85-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2170112.
• Lange, Gerrit. 2022. “Hindu Deities in the Flesh: Hot Emotions, Sensual Interactions, and (Syn)aesthetic Blends.” Religions 13(11), 1045. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/11/1045.

Vorträge

• Apostel, Lilith: Three-Level Mappings. Monday Meeting: Author Meets Critics, 18.12.2023, Bochum, Germany 
• Apostel, Lilith: The Interplay of Metaphor and Metonymy in Gilgameš, Enkidu, and the Netherworld. Monday Meeting, 19.12.2022, Bochum, Germany
• Apostel, Lilith: Nighttime: The Impact of Sleep and Dreaming on Ideas of the Netherworld before 1500 BC. Time and Temporality, 14.–16.09.2016, Cambridge, UK
• Apostel, Lilith: Sleep – Dream – Death: The Impact of Sleep and Dreaming on Ideas of the Netherworld before 1500 BC. Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Sleep Association, 07.05.2016, Wellington, New Zealand
• Apostel Lilith: Death Is Sleep: Instances of a Conceptual Metaphor in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Worlding the Brain, 27.–29.11.2018, Aarhus, Denmark
• Apostel Lilith: Die metaphorische Konzeption des Todes in der Frühgeschichte anhand materieller Metaphern. Die Welt (Be)greifen – Metaphern im Denken, Fühlen und Handeln, 15.–17.04.2021, Marburg, Germany.
• Krech, Volkhard: Religion Within Differentiation Processes of Ancient Societies: Syntactic, Pragmatic, and Semantic Aspects from a Sociological Perspective. Taxonomy,  Differentiation Processes, and Metaphor in the History of Knowledge, including Religion, 26.–27.06.2025, Bochum, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: Naiṇī Mātā of Pindar valley: A local Himalayan Nāginī within a Bigger Picture. AAR annual meeting, 22.–25.11.2025, Boston, USA
• Lange, Gerrit: Atmospheres, Outbursts and Flows: The Role of Emotion Metaphors in Theories of Religion. Panel Religious Metaphors of Experience and Emotion. Metaphors of Religion, 27.10.2025, Bochum, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: Venerated and Venomous Village Members: The Nāginīs and Nāgas of Garhwal in a Bigger Picture. ECSAS, 01.–04.10.2025, Heidelberg, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: āyā hai jogī banke luṭerā? The Evocation of ‘Tantric Knowledge’ in the Worship of a Himalayan Nāginī – and in Classical Hindi Snake Films. Nāgas and Territorial Deity Cosmologies in Monsoon Asia: Tantras, Mantras, and Worldly Rituals in Comparative Perspective, 19.–20.09.2025, Oxford, UK
• Lange, Gerrit: The Presence and Power of Nāginīs and Nāgas in Uttarakhand. BASAS annual conference, 10.–12.09.2025, Lancaster, UK
• Lange, Gerrit: ‘Driven’ by Deities, ‘Entered’ by Entities: Indian Metaphors for Possession and their Implications for Concepts of Emotion, Body and Self. IAHR World Congress, 26.08.2025, Krakow, Poland
• Lange, Gerrit: Introduction to the workshop Em-bodying Emotions and Deities, 03.–04.07.2025, Bochum, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: Enchanted Gods, Entranced People: Metaphors of awe, wonder and disappointment in local Himalayan stories and ethnographic reflection. Development and Disenchantment: Ethnographic Reports from South Asia, 05.–06.02.2025, Heidelberg, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: Stinkender Höllenpfuhl, Duftendes Paradies. Eine Komparative Schnupperreise in Mythologische Atmosphären. Ringvorlesung Religiöse Atmosphäre in der Antike. Von Inszenierung zu Erfahrung, 19.01.2025, Marburg, Germany.
• Lange, Gerrit: Drowning in the Color of Love, Drunk with its Sweetness: Emotion Metaphors that Imbue South Asian Sufi and Bhakti Traditions. By the Tongue of the Heart: Role and Development of Metaphors in Sufi Literature, 16.–18.07.2024, Bochum, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: How to ‘Grasp’ the Feelings of Others? Ethnographic Approaches between ‘Capturing’ the Nonverbal in Film and Being Oneself ‘Seized’ by a Collective Mood. DVRW Workshop Ethnographic Sensations, 01.12.2023, Online.
• Lange, Gerrit: Gefühl als ‘Saft’ und ‘Geschmack’: Ansätze zur Subjektivität, Intersubjektivität und Objektivität von Stimmungen und Emotionen in altindischen Rasa-Theorien. Lecture series Noch einmal mit Gefühl: Zugänge zum subjektiven Empfinden in der Antike, 18.01.2023, Marburg, Germany
• Lange, Gerrit: Hot and Cold, Fragrant and Pungent: Hindu (Syn-)Aesthetics of Divine Emotions and Bodies. AAR Annual Meeting, 19.–22.11.2022, Denver, USA
• Lange, Gerrit: Dancing Deities: Ontological Oscillations between Immanence and Transcendence, Solemnity and Humor. EASR Conference, 27.06.–01.07.2022, Cork, Ireland
• Lange, Gerrit: ākarśaṇ, the ‘Attraction’ and ‘Urge’ of a Contemporary Hindu Goddess: Force as Metaphor for Emotion, Emotion as Metaphor for Force. Lecture series RELIGION & METAPHOR, 11.01.2021, Bochum, Germany.
• Lange, Gerrit: ‘Blut der Dichtung’ und ‘Bewusstseinsströme’: Die Flüssigkeit des Denkens und Fühlens als Thema religiöser Geschichten. Panel Mehr Licht am Ende des Tunnels: Medien als Metaphern und die Metapher als Medium. DVRW-Tagung, 15.09.2017, Marburg, Germany