Here you can find more detailed information on the individual subprojects of the Collaborative Research Center 1475 “Metaphors of Religion”.
The “Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion” (GSMR) is the central instrument for the promotion of early career researchers in …
In the Islamic religious tradition, metaphors of space and movement hold a prominent place, starting with the “straight path” ( …
The subproject focuses on the role of spatial-kinetic metaphors in the formation of the Daoist religion between 300 BCE and …
This project aims, first, to contribute to the study of religious metaphors by investigating the Buddhist metaphors of light, space, …
Focusing on Zoroastrian eschatology, this project asks, to what extent the construction of religious meaning relies on the transformation of …
Subproject B01 investigates medical metaphors in Christian texts from the Middle Ages. The concept of ‘salvation’, ‘Seelenheil’ in German, is …
The religious dimension of Confucianism is frequently being sought in self-cultivation, understood as a quest for self-transcendence. The project aims …
This project focuses body-related metaphors from the Hebrew Bible, particularly from Psalms, Job, Jeremiah and Lamentations. Employing these metaphors, these …
The subproject gives attention to metaphors as constitutive of the emergence and development of two divergent dynamics in Hinduism, Buddhism …
The research project will focus on metaphors that occur in descriptions of out-of-body experiences. These will be taken out of …
The subproject C01 “Grammar as a Religious Metaphor” is dedicated to grammar as a source domain for religious metaphors. Grammarians …
Since the linguistic and conceptional proximity between law and religion in the ancient Near East is striking, this project wants …
The project explores religious metaphors from the semantic field of ordinary, everyday life. These metaphors revolve around a semantic gap: …
In this project, we analyze religious metaphors in online forum threads from the dual perspectives of computational linguistics and the …
Within the INF project, scholars of religion, computational linguists, and computer scientists jointly establish the digital research infrastructure of the …
The PR-project brings the CRC’s perspective on religion and metaphor to the public’s attention and invites the public to discover …
