Publications

With the working paper series Metaphor Papers we created an online, open-access publication format for initial findings, co-authored discussions, and interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of religious metaphors: omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/metaphorpapers

Complete Publications

2026

Artemov, Nikita. Forthcoming. “Inequality between Gods and Mortals: Conceptualizations of the Divine-Human Relationship in Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and in the Book of Job.” In Inequality in the Ancient Near East (CCRAI 69), edited by W.J. Waal, J.G. Dercksen, and C. Waerzeggers. Leiden.
Artemov, Nikita, and Vicky Ziegler. Forthcoming. “Praiseworthy Speech with the Heart: Heart Imagery in al Qušayrī's Naḥw al-Qulūb and in the Hebrew Bible. A Conceptual and Cognitive Analysis.” Journal of the German Oriental Society 176.
Eggert, Marion. Forthcoming. “Jianghu (kangho) als Raum und als Wassermetapher im koreanischen Langgedicht 'Kwandong pyŏlgok' (ca. 1580).“ In: Die vielen Gesichter der Flüsse und Seen: Untersuchungen zum chinesischen Jianghu, edited by Clemens v. Haselberg. Münster: LIT.
Frevel, Christian. Forthcoming. “Gefährliche Begegnungen? Überlegungen zu den Waffen der Götter und zu einer singulären Bronze vom Tell Abu al-Kharaz.” In Kultische Küsse, edited by Jan Dietrich, Judit Filitz, and Laura Gönnermann. Vetus Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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.
Mohtashami, Neda. Forthcoming. “Eschatologia Iranica VII. The Metaphorical Landscape of Darkness in the Young Avesta: A CMT-based Study.” In The Final Frontier: Unveiling the Ancient Iranian Language of Eschatology, ed. by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Yusef Saadat. Dynamics in the History of Religions. Leiden: Brill.
Mohtashami, Neda, Yusef Saadat, and Kianoosh Rezania. Forthcoming. “Eschatologia Iranica VI. Depiction of Afterlife in Old Avestan Texts? A Metaphorological Approach to Cinuuatō Pərətu-.” In The Final Frontier: Unveiling the Ancient Iranian Language of Eschatology, ed. by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Yusef Saadat. Dynamics in the History of Religions. Leiden: Brill.
Pons, Jessie. Forthcoming. “Sun Disks and Sacred Bodies: Some Reflections on the Dialectics of Light in a Relief from Matkanai, Pakistan.” Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia 38.
Saadat, Yusef. Forthcoming. “Eschatologia Iranica V. Weighing the Girl Called Dēn to Determine One’s Eschatological Destiny.” In The Final Frontier: Unveiling the Ancient Iranian Language of Eschatology, ed. by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Yusef Saadat. Dynamics in the History of Religions. Leiden: Brill.
Saadat, Yusef, and Kianoosh Rezania. Forthcoming. “Eschatologia Iranica II. Some Unnoticed Aspects of the Zoroastrian Afterlife River of Tears as the Continuation of the Indo-European Afterlife River.” Journal of Indo-European Studies.
Seidel, Roman. Forthcoming. “Qur’anic Lead Metaphors and the Unfolding of their Religious Meaning: Considerations on the Theory of Metaphor and Transtextuality Applied to Qur’an and Tafsīr”. In By the Tongue of the Heart: Role and Development of Metaphors in Sufi Literature, edited by Vicky Ziegler and Roman Seidel. Special Issue of Asiatische Studien.
Seidel, Roman, and Nayerehsadat Mirmousa. Forthcoming. “Mapping the Circular WAY in Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s Masnavī. The Tale of The Parrot and the Merchant and Its Metaphorical Significance" In By the Tongue of the Heart: Role and Development of Metaphors in Sufi Literature, edited by Vicky Ziegler and Roman Seidel. Special Issue of Asiatische Studien.
Seidel, Roman and Vicky Ziegler, eds. Forthcoming. By the Tongue of the Heart: Role and Development of Metaphors in Sufi Literature. Special Issue of Asiatische Studien.

2025

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.
Artemov, Nikita, Linda Simonis and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch (eds). 2025. Sealing, Molding, Imprinting, and Inscribing as Religious Metaphors. Metaphor Papers 22. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.422.
Artemov, Nikita. 2025a. “‘Guard Your Heart with All Vigilance, for from It Are the Outgoings of Life’ (Prov 4:23). Heart Metaphors and Concepts of the ‘Inner Self’ in the Hebrew Bible.” 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.
Artemov, Nikita. 2025b. “‘Walk in the Ways of Your Heart’ (Eccl 11:9). On the Intersection of Way and Heart Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible.” Metaphor Papers 19 (thematic issue Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors). DOI: https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430
Artemov, Nikita. 2025c. “‘You Shall Set These My Words upon Your Heart’ (Deuteronomy 11:18). Sealing and Writing as Metaphors for Interiorizing Religious Messages in Biblical Hebrew and Their Ancient Near Eastern Background.” In: Sealing, Molding, Imprinting, and Inscribing as Religious Metaphors, edited by Nikita Artemov, Linda Simonis, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. Metaphor Papers 22. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.422.493.
CRC 1475 Metaphors of Religion. 2025. “Metaphor Analysis Web Annotation Data from CRC 1475 ‘Metaphors of Religion.’” Version 1.0. Research Data Services (RDS) of the Ruhr University Bochum: ReSeeD Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.60517/TT44PQ55T.
Di Giacinto, Licia. 2025. “The DAO Metaphor in Early China: The Religion of the Way between and beyond ‘the way that can be way-ed’ and ‘the way that cannot be way-ed’.” In Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors, edited by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.497.
Dipper, Stefanie. 2025a. “Metaphorical Heads and Literal Dependents: Syntactic Properties of Metaphors in German.” In Proceedings of the 23th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2025), 81–90, Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.10/.
Dipper, Stefanie. 2025b. “Überlegungen zur Annotation und Repräsentation von Metaphern in religiösen Texten.” In ‚singen unde sagen’. Qualitative und quantitative Studien zum ästhetischen Wortschatz der Vormoderne, edited by Manuel Braun, Marion Darilek and Anette Gerok-Reiter, 291-302. De Gruyter.
Dipper, Stefanie, Alexandra Wiemann, and Adam Roussel. 2025. Guidelines zur Annotation von deliberaten Metaphern. Metaphor Papers 27. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.445.
Elwert, Frederik. 2025. “God is like a Zookeeper: Metaphor Use in Religious Online Forums.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.515.
Eggert, Marion, and Volkhard Krech. 2025. Wohnworte: Schreiben und Lesen als Wohnen und Aufbruch. Metaphor Papers 23. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.420.
Eggert, Marion. 2025 (with contributions by Elsa Küppers). “‘Heart’ in Sino-Korean Materials of Confucian Provenance.” 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.438.525.
Finke, Sabrina and Tim Karis. 2025. „Schmale Öffentlichkeiten: Wissenschaftskommunikation im SFB 1475 Metaphern der Religion.“ In Praktiken der Wissenschaftskommunikation in Forschungsverbünden. Formate, Öffentlichkeiten, Nachhaltigkeit. Marina Böddeker und Britta Hochkirchen (eds.). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press. pp. 145-164. https://doi.org/10.64136/saro4372.
Frevel, Christian. 2025. “Metaphors We Look at. Some Reflections on Images and Texts with a Case Study on Bull Iconography.” In Symbolism of the Biblical World @50, edited by Brent Strawn, Joel LeMon, and Ryan Bonfiglio. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Leuven.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2025a. Die kategorische Kapuze: Metaphern als logische Brücken bei den Modisten. Metaphor Papers 13. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.342.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2025b. “Zwischen Weinfass und Universum: Keplers ‚ungefähre‘ Wahrheit.” Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 26: 181-197, https://doi.org/10.1075/bpjam.00106.gle.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2025c. “Doch in die richtige Richtung? Die epilinguistische Übersetzung ins Lateinische.“ In In die falsche Richtung? Studien zu neuzeitlichen Übersetzungen ins Lateinische. Hrsg. von J. Heideklang et al., 61-83. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71231-3_3 .
Jürgens, Claudia and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. 2025. “Embodied Light-Metaphors: The Example of the ‘Flame Meditation.’” In More Light on the Metaphors of Light, edited by Carmen Meinert and Vivien Staps. Metaphor Papers 26. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.448.529.
Jurczyk, Thomas, Roman Seidel, Adrian Bernhard, Tatjana Scheffler and Johann Büssow. 2025. “Text Mining Tafsir: Compilation and Preliminary Explorations of a Curated Corpus of 80 Qur’anic Commentaries.” Journal of Digital Islamicate Research 3 (2025): 1–72. https://doi.org/10.1163/27732363-bja00010.
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, and Dominika Motak. 2025. Systematische Überlegungen zum Thesaurus religiöser Metaphern (TRM) in religionssoziologischer und soziolinguistischer Perspektive. Metaphor Papers 18. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.436.
Krech, Volkhard, and Martin Radermacher. 2025. Materialität und Metapher. Theoretische und konzeptuelle Überlegungen anhand einiger empirischer Befunde. Metaphor Papers 24. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.435.
Krüger, Patrick Felix. 2025a. Religions- und Kulturkontakt im Bild: Über Metaphern und Formulare in der materialen Missionsgeschichte. Metaphor Papers 15. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.354.
Krüger, Patrick Felix. 2025b. “Locating Holiness in a Changing World: Illustrating the Jinas in an Early Nineteenth-Century Manuscript.” Marg 76 (4) (June).
Krüger, Patrick F. and Knut Martin Stünkel. 2025a. Metaphern machen Märtyrer. Die franziskanischen Narrative über den Tod von P. Silvester Padberg OFM (1906–1938), Wissenschaft und Weisheit 87 (2024): 161-179.
Krüger, Patrick F. and Knut Martin Stünkel. 2025b. Subvertierte Formulare und erläuternde Metaphern. Über die chinesische Umdeutung europäischer Vorgaben in Kunstwerken am Beispiel der Ars Sacra Pekinensis, In Produktion, Transfer, Agency! Koloniales Sammeln und indigene Akteur:innen, herausgegeben von Stella Barsch, Lars Frühsorge und Olaf Günther, Potsdam: edition tethys, 148-166.
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.
Meinert, Carmen and Vivien Staps (eds.). 2025. More Light on the Metaphors of Light. Metaphor Papers 26. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.448.
Mohtashami, Neda, Yusef Saadat, and Kianoosh Rezania. 2025. “Eschatologia Iranica III: WAY Metaphors as CONDUCT OF LIFE in Selected Iranian Languages: A CMT-Based Case Study.” In Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors, edited by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.519.
Mohtashami, Neda, Yusef Saadat, and Kianoosh Rezania. 2025a. “Die Genese eines Religionsbegriffs im iranischen Feld des Religionskontaktes.” In Religionswissenschaft: Aktuelle Annäherungen, edited by Michael Stausberg and Katharina Wilkens, 73–83. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111458892-007.
Mohtashami, Neda, Yusef Saadat, and Kianoosh Rezania. 2025b. “Hādoxt Nask.” The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa (Malden, MA). https://doi.org/0.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00879.
Pientka-Hinz, Rosel. 2025. “In True Perspective—The Architectural Wisdom of the King.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.509.
Pientka-Hinz, Rosel. 2025. “Professions As Religious Metaphors: Conclusion.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.516.
Pons, Jessie, and Patrick Felix Krüger. 2025. “The God Within: The Motif of Hanumān Tearing His Heart.” 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.438.523.
Pons, Jessie, and Martin Radermacher. 2025. Annotating Multimodal Metaphors: Methodological Considerations. Metaphor Papers 32. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.449.
Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2025a. “The Struggles of Large Language Models with Zero- and Few-Shot (Extended) Metaphor Detection.” Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 38 (2): 97–109. https://doi.org/10.21248/jlcl.38.2025.287.
Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2025b. “Using Large Language Models to Perform MIPVU-Inspired Automatic Metaphor Detection.” In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II), edited by Giulia Rambelli, Filip Ilievski, Marianna Bolognesi, and Pia Sommerauer, 10–21. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.analogyangle-1.2.
Rezania, Kianoosh, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel, eds. 2025. Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.
Rezania, Kianoosh, and Neda Mohtashami. 2025. “The WAY as a Metaphor for CONDUCT OF LIFE: An Introduction.” In Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors, edited by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.517.
Rezania, Kianoosh, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel, eds. 2025. Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.
Rodenhausen, Lina. 2025. “Disentangling ‘Polarization in Religion.’” Frontiers in Political Science 6 (January). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1492172.
Rodenhausen, Lina. 2025. “’Selig seid ihr, wenn euch die Menschen um meinetwillen schmähen und verfolgen‘ – Minderheitskonstruktionen progressiver und konservativer Christ:innen auf Reddit.” In S. J. Jahn & S. Weiß (Eds.), Konstellationen religiöser Minderheiten und Mehrheiten in pluralen Gesellschaften. Bielefeld: transcript.
Savapakarn, Phoenix. 2025. “‘Metabolism’ as Metaphor of Appropriation in Nicholas of Cusa’s Sermones.” In Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors, edited by Linda Simonis and Knut Martin Stünkel. Metaphor Papers 17. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.389.463.
Savapakarn, Phoenix. 2025. “‘A preacher is like a baker’—Nicholas of Cusa’s Allegory of Making Bread: Nicholas of Cusa, Sermo XLI (1444).” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.513.
Seidel, Roman, and Johann Büssow. 2025a. “Mapping the ‘Straight and Solid Road’ Within the Qur’anic Landscape: Development of a Primordial Islamic Way Metaphor.” In Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors, edited by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.507.
Seidel, Roman, and Johann Büssow. 2025b. Annotating Explicative Metaphors: An Annotation Guideline for Qur’anic Lead Metaphors and Explicative Metaphors in Exegetical Texts (Tafsir). Metaphor Papers 31. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.451.
Simonis, Linda, Knut Martin Stünkel, eds. 2025. Exploring the Cosmos. Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors. Metaphor Papers 17. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.389.
Simonis, Linda, and Knut Martin Stünkel. 2025. “Exploring the Cosmos. Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors.” In Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors, edited by Linda Simonis and Knut Martin Stünkel. Metaphor Papers 17. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.389.458.
Simonis, Linda. 2025. “‘Written in the Mind’: Genealogies and Affiliations of a Melanchthonian Metaphor.” In Sealing, Molding, Imprinting, and Inscribing as Religious Metaphors, edited by Nikita Artemov, Linda Simonis, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. Metaphor Papers 22. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.422.492.
Simonis, Linda. 2025. “Professions as Religious Metaphors: Introduction.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.508.
Simonis, Linda. 2025. “Steering Through the Storms of the Reformation: Christ as Helmsman in Melanchthon’s Poem Pro Argonautis.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.514.
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. 2025. “‘Nothing to be Practiced’ (bsgom du med)—A Paradox and a Metaphor in the Tibetan Instruction Genres.” In Contemplation and Non-Doing in Entangled Religions 14/4, Dylan Esler (ed.), https://doi.org/10.46586/er.14.2025.12536.
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. 2025. “Seal, Mold, Print-Imprint, and Propelling. A Glimpse of Powerful Metaphors in Tibetan Buddhist Literature.” In Sealing, Molding, Imprinting, and Inscribing as Religious Metaphors, edited by Nikita Artemov, Linda Simonis, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. Metaphor Papers 22. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.422.494.
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. 2025. “The Way in Tibetan Buddhism—How Metaphors Transform Practice.” In Characteristics and Developments of WAY Metaphors in Religious Traditions, edited by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami and Roman Seidel. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.506.
Steinbach, Johannes. 2025. “The Blacksmith as a Metaphor for the Devil in Jean Gerson’s Donatus Spiritualis.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.511.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025a. "Metaphern der Religionskritik. Beispiele religionskritischer Sinnbildung bei Karl Marx und Christopher Hitchens." Psychosozial 48: 77-87.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025b. Metapher und Formular. Überlegungen zu einer allgemeinen Theorie der Erfahrung und der religiösen Sinnbildung durch Metaphern im Anschluss an Jürgen Frese und Wilhelm Schapp. Metaphor Papers 14. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.353.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025c. “Light, Brooms, and Drops of Oil on Thick Paper. Cusanus’ Everyday Metaphors. A Suggestion for Their Typology.” In Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors, edited by Linda Simonis and Knut Martin Stünkel. Metaphor Papers 17. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.389.462.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025d. “Proto-Metaphors and Flawed Metaphors from Everyday-Life: Glassblowing and the Process of Transubstantiation: Nicholas of Cusa, Sermo III (1431).” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.512.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025e. Review of: Marius Kraus: Ulrich von Hutten und seine Gegner. Humanistische Invektiven am Vorabend der Reformation (Transalpines Mittelalter 1), Baden-Baden: Ergon 2022, Medievalia et Humanistica 50: 171-173.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025f. “The Senses and Their Sentinel: The Ways to the Fortress of the Soul Occupied by the Devil (Cusanus’ Sermo CXLIX, 1454).” In Conceptualizing CONDUCT OF LIFE through WAY Metaphors, edited by Kianoosh Rezania, Neda Mohtashami, and Roman Seidel. Metaphor Papers 19. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.430.505.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025g. “Towards a Refined Everyday Metaphorics of Light. On Cusanus’ Sermons CXXVIII, CXXIX, and CXXX.” In More Light on the Metaphors of Light, edited by Carmen Meinert and Vivien Staps. Metaphor Papers 26. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.448.528.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2025h. Unsheathing the Blades of Mind: Ulrich von Hutten’s Activist Metaphors, Medievalia & Humanistica 50: 89-118.
Tögel, Philipp, Henning Gebhard, Frederik Elwert, Stefanie Dipper, Makar Fedorov, Vandana Jha, Volkhard Krech, and Danah Tonne. 2025. “Data-Rich Web Annotations: Embedding Datasets to Link Complex Metaphor Analyses with Their Textual Basis.” Paper presented at SemDH 2025, Portoroz. Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000183935.
Wiemann, Alexandra. 2025a. “sine wnden sulen in uns leuen. Semantische Rollen zur linguistischen Metaphernanalyse am Beispiel des Rheinischen Marienlobs.” In ,singen unde sagen’. Qualitative und quantitative Studien zum ästhetischen Wortschatz der Vormoderne, edited by Manuel Braun, Marion Darilek, and Annette Gerok-Reiter, 303-321. De Gruyter.
Wiemann, Alexandra. 2025b. “Semantic Roles of ‘Heart’ in the Prose Version of the Middle High German Die Lilie.” 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.438.521.
Ziegler, Vicky. 2025. “The Worshipper as a Servant of God in al-Qushayrī’s (d. 1072) ‘The Grammar of Hearts’ (Naḥw al-qulūb).” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, ed. F. Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.510.

2024

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.
Artemov, Nikita. 2024. “Like a Fortress under Siege. Metaphors of the Self and War Imagery in Job’s Fifth Speech (Job 16-17).” In Job’s Speeches. Zwischen Selbstreflexion, Klage und Streit, edited by Anja Marschall, 51-67. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
Artemov, Nikita, Elsa Kueppers, Sebastian Reimann, Lina Rodenhausen, and Alexandra Wiemann. 2024. Taking MIPVU Further Around the World-And Through the Ages: MIPVU for Religion-Related Texts: Challenges and Benefits. Metaphor Papers 9. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.299.
Artemov, Nikita, Linda Simonis, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, eds. 2025. Sealing, Molding, Imprinting, and Inscribing as Religious Metaphors. Metaphor Papers 22. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.422.
Di Giacinto, Licia. 2024b. “Daoismus und der gerechte Krieg: ein Überblick.” In Handbuch Religion in Konflikten und Friedensprozessen, edited by Ines-Jacqueline Werkner, Madlen Krüger, and Anna Löw, 985–994. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Dipper, Stefanie, and Frederik Elwert. 2024. Annotating Metaphorical Mappings: An Implementation of Steen’s Five Step Method. Metaphor Papers 11. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.258.
Dipper, Stefanie, Cora Haiber, Anna Maria Schröter, Alexandra Wiemann, and Maike Brinkschulte. 2024. “Universal Dependencies: Extensions for Modern and Historical German.” In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024, 17101–17111. Torino, Italy. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1485/.
Dipper, Stefanie, Adam Roussel, Alexandra Wiemann, Won Kim, and Tra-My Nguyen. 2024. “Guidelines for the Annotation of Deliberate Linguistic Metaphor.” In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024), 53–58. Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.figlang-1.7.
Dipper, Stefanie, and Adam Roussel. 2024. Korpus deutschsprachiger evangelischer Predigten der Gegenwart [Data set]. Git repository. https://gitlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/comphist/predigtenkorpus.
Frevel, Christian. 2024. “Rezension von Søren Lorenzen, Spoken into Being. Self and Name(s) in the Hebrew Bible,” Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe (FAT II), Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck 2022, ZAW 136(4), 642-644.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2024. “Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer: Wege und Irrwege einer Metapher.“ In Schiffbruch – Von Untergängen und Neuanfängen. Hrsg. von M. Baumbach, Y. Temelli, 31-47. Stuttgart: Steiner, https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515137089.
Klöckner, Chris. 2024. Tote Bienlein. Eine Betrachtung der Bienenmetapher bei Philipp Melanchthon im Briefwechsel mit Paul Eber und im Kommentar zu Vergils „Georgica“. Metaphor Papers 10. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.315.
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.
Krüger, Patrick Felix. 2024. “Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art." International Journal of Jaina Studies 20 (3): 1–21. https://soas-repository.worktribe.com/output/451134/metaphors-of-kingship-in-ancient-jain-literature-and-art.
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.
Mohtashami, Neda, Yusef Saadat, and Kianoosh Rezania. 2024. “Eschatologia Iranica I: From Zoroastrian Cosmos to Abbasid Madīnat Al-Salām. A Journey Through Utopia and Heterotopia.” Religions 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15101170.
Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024a. “When Is a Metaphor Actually Novel? Annotating Metaphor Novelty in the Context of Automatic Metaphor Detection.” In Proceedings of the 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), edited by Sophie Henning and Manfred Stede, 87–97. St. Julians, Malta: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.law-1.9/.
Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024b. “Metaphors in Online Religious Communication: A Detailed Dataset and Cross-Genre Metaphor Detection.” In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 11236–46. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.982/.
Reimann, Sebastian, Lina Rodenhausen, Frederik Elwert, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024. “By a Thread: Encoding Online Forum Data in TEI.” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, nos. Issue 17 (April): Issue 17. https://doi.org/10.4000/1209k.
Rodenhausen, Lina. 2024. “‘Mutter, Vater, Kind’. Ressourcenarme Automatische Metaphernverarbeitung Für Religionswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen.” February 21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698475.
Roussel, Adam. 2024a. “Adapting Measures of Literality for Use with Historical Language Data.” In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, 209–215, Miami, USA. https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-1.20/.
Roussel, Adam. 2024b. “Tabular JSON: A Proposal for a Pragmatic Linguistic Data Format.” In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), 166–172, Vienna, Austria. https://aclanthology.org/2024.konvens-main.19/.
Roussel, Adam, Thomas Klein, Stefanie Dipper, Klaus-Peter Wegera, and Claudia Wich-Reif. 2024. Referenzkorpus Mittelhochdeutsch (1050–1350), Version 2.1, https://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/rem/. ISLRN 937-948-254-174-0.
Simonis, Linda. 2024. Nektar und Stachel. Bienenmetaphern in Wittenberg: Philipp Melanchthon, Lucas Cranach und Johann Stigel. Metaphor Papers 6. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.293.
Tonne, Danah, Germaine Götzelmann, Nicoletta Pütz, Maximilian Walz, and Kathrin Leonie Schmidt. (2024) 2025. tAKITA. Java. August 20, 2024, released June 18. https://github.com/kit-data-manager/takita.

2023

Eggert, Marion, and Elsa Küppers. 2023. “Metaphorical Figurations of Transcendence in 16th Century Literati Gasa“. The Review of Korean Studies 26 (2): 9–44. https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART003020058.
Frevel, Christian. 2023. “… Schön gestaltet wie Säulen am Bau eines Palastes? Gynaikomorphe Architekturelemente in der Kleinkunst der Südlichen Levante und die Deutung von Ps 144,12.” In “Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!” “Drink of the Wine Which I Have Mingled!,” edited by Stefan Münger, Nancy Rahn, and Patrick Wyssmann, 124–52. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 303. Leuven.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2023a. “Leibniz’ Dyadik, das Yijing und die Siemens AG.” In Die antike Literatur und die Wissenschaftliche Revolution. Hrsg. von M. Korenjak, I. Tautschnig, 269-283. Baden-Baden: Rombach, https://doi.org/10.5771/9783968219394-269.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2023b. “Wer hat’s erfunden? Mathematische Sätze und ihre ‚Erfinder‘ in der griechischen Antike.” In Erfinden – Erschaffen – Erdichten. Konzepte und Inszenierungen von ‚Ersten ErfinderInnen‘ in der antiken Literatur und ihrer Rezeption. Hrsg. von M. Baumbach, 131-154. Darmstadt: WBG.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2023c. Review of Jordan Kirk, Medieval Nonsense. Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England. New York 2021. Medievalia et Humanistica 48: 171-175.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2023d. Die Wege Der Sprache: Metaphernanalyse bei Virgilius Maro. Metaphor Papers 2. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.280.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2023e. Rezension zu "Metapherntheorie und Konstruktionsgrammatik. Ein vierdimensionaler Ansatz zur Analyse von Metaphern und Metaphorischen Konstruktionen" von Bin Zhang (2023). Metaphor Papers 7. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.285.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2023f. “Passwort vergessen? Leon Battista Albertis Chiffriermethode.” In Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura (lat.). Kunsttheorie – Rhetorik – Narrative. Hrsg. von H. Wulfram, G. Schöffberger, 337-347. Stuttgart: Steiner, https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515132527.
Krech, Volkhard, Tim Karis, and Frederik Elwert. 2023. Metaphors of Religion: A Conceptual Framework. Metaphor Papers 1. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.282.
Krüger, Patrick, and Knut Martin Stünkel. 2023. “Works of Art as Model Forms in the Contact of Religions: Glimpses from Japan, China and India.” Art of the Orient 12 (1): 72–109. https://doi.org/10.15804/aoto202305.
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.
Pons, Jessie. 2023. “Religion, Media, and Materiality: Introduction”. Entangled Religions 11 (3). https://doi.org/10.46586/er.11.2023.11430.
Roussel, Adam. 2023. “Lexical Semantics with Vector Symbolic Architectures. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023)”, 53–61, Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands. https://aclanthology.org/2023.resourceful-1.8/.
Simonis, Linda and Knut Martin Stünkel. 2023. Report on the Workshop “Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors” (15–16 June 2023, Ruhr University Bochum, Center for Religious Studies), Comparatio 15: 165-170.
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. 2023. Do You Speak Mahāmudrā? How the Inexpressible is Said Through Metaphors,” With a Translation of Tilopa’s Gangama Upadeśa and of Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé’s Commentary. Metaphor Papers 5. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.260.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2023. On Aggressive and Self-Aggressive Metaphors in Religious Language: The Cases of Martin Luther and Nicholas Cusanus. Metaphor Papers 3. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.281.

2022

Dipper, Stefanie, and Simone Schultz-Balluff. 2022. “ReM für Mediävist*innen. Perspektiven des Referenzkorpus Mittelhochdeutsch (1050–1350) für germanistisch-mediävistische Fragestellungen.” In Digitale Mediävistik. Perspektiven der Digital Humanities für die Altgermanistik (BmE Themenheft 11), edited by Elisabeth Lienert, Joachim Hamm, Albrecht Hausmann and Gabriel Viehhauser. Oldenburg: BIS.
Glei, Reinhold F. 2022. Review of Stephan Heilen, Konjunktionsprognostik in der Frühen Neuzeit. Band 1: Die Antichrist-Prognose des Johannes von Lübeck (1474) zur Saturn-Jupiter-Konjunktion von 1504 und ihre frühneuzeitliche Rezeption. Baden-Baden 2020. Medievalia et Humanistica 47: 117-119.
Krüger, Patrick Felix. 2022. “Imaging the Divine: The Depiction of Gods and Deified Beings in Illustrations of Kalpasūtra Manuscripts from Western India.” Art of the Orient 11: 51–78. https://doi.org/10.11588/ao.2022.1.22888.
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.
Pons, Jessie. 2022. “Would You like Some Wine? Remarks on a Revelling Scene from Zar-Dheri”. In Connecting the Art, Literature, and Religion of South and Central Asia, edited by Ines Konczak-Nagel, Satomi Hiyama, and Astrid Klein, 281–98. New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors.
Stünkel, Knut Martin. 2022. "Sermo est panis animae - Prolegomena zur Untersuchung von Metaphern des Alltäglichen im religiösen Sprechen des Nikolaus von Kues," Komparatistik Online, 73-89. https://www.komparatistik-online.de/index.php/komparatistik_online/article/view/226.