Subprojects

Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion

Integrated Research Training Group: Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion (GSMR)

The “Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion” (GSMR) is the central instrument for the promotion of early career researchers in …

Serviceproject

Computational Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and Research Software Engineering

The Service Project S supports research across the CRC with expertise from corpus linguistics and computational humanities. The project develops …

Subproject A01

Path and Guidance: Interpretations of Qur’anic Metaphors of Space and Movement in the Tafsīr Literature

Subproject A01 investigates metaphors of space, movement, and bodily experience in the Qur’an and the tradition of Tafsir (Qur’anic exegesis). …

Subproject A02

Kinesis Refined: The Daoist Way or Did a Metaphor Become God?

Subproject A02 investigates the development of the Dao (“the Way”), one of the central concepts of the Chinese Daoist tradition. …

Subproject A03

Metaphors and their Semantic Fields in Texts of the ‘Experience Instruction’ Genres of Tibetan Buddhism

Subproject A03 investigates the role of metaphors in Tibetan tantric Buddhism, with a particular focus on yoga, visualization, and ritual …

Subproject A05 [B04]

“Stairway to Heaven”: Liminal Spaces in Early Buddhist and Hindu Sacred Architectures

Subproject A05 investigates the metaphorical significance of liminal spaces in early Buddhist and Hindu sacred architecture in South Asia (3rd …

Subproject A06

Paths of Passion: Metaphorical Acts in Religious Scenologies and Processes of Their Cultural Appropriation

Subproject A06 investigates how religious metaphors travel across cultures and acquire new meanings in processes of artistic and intellectual exchange. …

Subproject B02

Addressing the Spirits in Korean Confucian Ritual Texts

Subproject B02 investigates the religious dimensions of Korean Confucianism during the Chosŏn period (16th–18th centuries). While the first funding phase …

Subproject B05

Underworlding. Metaphorical Aspects of Mythological Otherworlds

Subproject B05 investigates mythological underworlds and otherworldly realms in religious traditions from South Asia, the Ancient Near East, and beyond. …

Subproject B06 [C01]

Number as Religious Metaphor

Subproject B06 investigates numbers as religious metaphors. Building on the former subproject C01, which explored grammatical concepts as a source …

Subproject B07

Mocking Metaphor: The Use of Figurative Language in Parody Religions

Subproject B07 investigates the role of metaphor in parody religions such as Pastafarianism, the Church of the SubGenius, and the …

Subproject C04

Metaphor and social positioning in religious online forums. Local, non-local and cross-modal metaphor interpretation

Subproject C04 investigates how metaphors shape religious communication in online environments. Combining approaches from religious studies and computational linguistics, the …

Subproject C05 [A04]

Metaphors of Religion in Zoroastrian and Manichaean Middle Persian: the Lexeme dēn and Its Conceptualizations

Subproject C05 investigates how the concept of religion was understood and expressed in late antique Iran. Building on the former …

Subproject C06 [B01]

Women and men, aristocrats and commoners: A socio-biographical view of metaphor

Subproject C06 investigates how metaphor use is shaped by the social backgrounds and life experiences of the people who produce, …

Subproject C07

Morning Splendor of Eternity: Form-based Properties of Metaphors in Hymns and Other Religious Texts

Subproject C07 investigates how the formal structure of language contributes to the creation of religious meaning through metaphor. Focusing on …

Subproject C08

Metaphors for God in the Emergent Prophecy of Doom: The Book of Amos as a Landmark of Religious Meaning-Making

Subproject C08 investigates metaphors for God in the Book of Amos, one of the earliest and most influential examples of …

Subproject INF

Metaphor Base Camp: Providing the Common Data Basis and Advancing Digital Research Methods for Religious Metaphors

INF serves as the central infrastructure project of the CRC, providing the shared data, tools, and methodological foundations that make …

Subproject PR

Religion and Metaphor in Contemporary Media Realities: What can we learn from the Humanities?

The PR-project brings the CRC’s perspective on religion and metaphor to the public’s attention and invites the public to discover …

Subproject B03

Metaphors of the Self: On the Connection between Self-Constitution and Religion in the Hebrew Bible

This project focuses body-related metaphors from the Hebrew Bible, particularly from Psalms, Job, Jeremiah and Lamentations. Employing these metaphors, these …

Subproject C02

Ancient Near Eastern Conceptions of Order between Law and Religion

Since the linguistic and conceptional proximity between law and religion in the ancient Near East is striking, this project wants …

Subproject C03

Metaphors of Everyday Life

The project explores religious metaphors from the semantic field of ordinary, everyday life. These metaphors revolve around a semantic gap: …