Recovering Celtic Spirituality? Semiotics and The Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis

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dc.contributor.authorWalker, Maxine
dc.contributor.editorKapalo, James
dc.contributor.editorButler, Jenny
dc.contributor.editorHeinhold, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-11T08:38:59Z
dc.date.available2017-08-11T08:38:59Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractTo explore an aspect of the contemporary quest to recover ‘Celtic spirituality’ and to locate sacred landscapes, this paper examines the sea journey of sixth-century St. Brendan and his fellow monks to various islands in the North Atlantic. In speaking the language of the monastery on the islands, St. Brendan reads and interprets the experiences on these islands not as ‘sacred’ but as a context in which the monastic family continues its rituals. Using St. Brendan’s identification of the unknown-sign ‘whale’ with the known-sign ‘island,’ studies in semiotics and sign-theories discover the complications in recovering ‘Celtic spirituality’. Postmodern fragmentation and cultural discontinuities seem to make such a recovery impossible, but notions of viewing the ‘other’ as a part of oneself may locate ways to set out again on an open sea toward ‘island’en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationWalker, M. 2017. 'Recovering Celtic Spirituality? Semiotics and The Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis', Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions 5, pp. 1 - 19.en
dc.identifier.endpage19
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4430
dc.identifier.volume5
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://jisasr.org/current-issue-volume-5-2017/
dc.rights©2017, The Author(s).en
dc.subjectSpiritualityen
dc.subjectSignsen
dc.subjectLandscapeen
dc.subjectMetonymsen
dc.subjectSt. Brendanen
dc.subjectMonasteryen
dc.titleRecovering Celtic Spirituality? Semiotics and The Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatisen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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