scholarly journals Negotiating cultural, political, and spiritual meaning through affect and movement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Torres
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Meaning

The meaning as a buffer hypothesis: Spiritual meaning attenuates the effect of disaster-related resource loss on posttraumatic stress.

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Haynes ◽  
Daryl R. Van Tongeren ◽  
Jamie Aten ◽  
Edward B. Davis ◽  
Don E. Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Resource Loss ◽  
Spiritual Meaning

Sacrum et profanum dans Yonec de Marie de France (XIIe siècle)

2013 ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Anna Gęsicka
Keyword(s):  
Marie De France ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
The Moment

In the Breton lais, we encounter a brilliant marriage of the Celtic and Christian « marvel » (merveilleux), which is revealed on various semiotic levels. The zones of sacrum and profanum interpenetrate and provoke the reader’s afterthoughts with abundant and profound imagery. In Yonec by Marie de France, at the moment when the coming from Autre Monde protagonist is receiving the Eucharist, he con-stitutes one body with his beloved. In this paper, I attempt to uncover a spiritual meaning/message underlying the text, characters-symbols. The clue to this analysis is the idea of transition: from one status to another, from one figure to another, or from one meaning to another.    

Everything is Noise: Don Delillo’s White Noise and the Affectivity of Media, Religion, and Divination

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-174
Author(s):  
Eric Chalfant
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
White Noise ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
Warren Weaver

This paper provides a theoretical defense of the concept of noise, borrowed and loosened from the field of information theory, as a heuristic tool for discussing mediation as divination and exploring the intersection of media studies and religious studies. I first provide a theoretical primer for the concept of noise as it is articulated by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver and developed in media studies by Friedrich Kittler and in religious studies by Mark Taylor. Then, a close reading of Don Delillo’s White Noise draws out the potential of noise to highlight media’s ability to provide spiritual meaning and truth through an affect of divination. Finally, I connect these themes to current conceptions of media’s relationship to truth as well as recent anthropology on religious divination, suggesting the utility of noise to aid in scholarly efforts to materialize both media studies and religious studies as they engage with affect theory.

The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Songs ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Song Of Solomon ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
Arduous Task ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

The arduous task of queering the Song of Songs, a book that is ostensibly an unequivocal celebration of male-female sexual love, was accomplished over many centuries by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church (as well as by Jewish Sages of blessed memory, though they were hampered by a modesty and restraint to which their Christian cousins were seldom subject). Night after night in their cells, by flickering candlelight, they queeried the Song of Solomon, strenuously inquiring after its spiritual meaning and confidently setting it forth. And as they did so their austere cells were transformed into lavish theaters. What follows is a series of preliminary portraits of some of the more remarkable performers.

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