On the semiotics of space in the study of religions: Theoretical perspectives and methodological challenges

Simple item page
dc.check.date2022-09-06
dc.check.infoAccess to this article is restricted until 12 months after publication by request of the publisher.en
dc.contributor.authorPadoan, Tatsuma
dc.contributor.funderJapan Society for the Promotion of Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-11T12:30:26Z
dc.date.available2021-05-11T12:30:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-06
dc.date.updated2021-05-07T19:49:49Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the possibility to investigate space in religious discourses from a semiotic point of view, by examining the theoretical potentials of this approach, and the methodological issues involved in addressing social and historical change. After a discussion of different theoretical scenarios, and of previous attempts to apply semiotics to the study of space, I will focus on the ethnosemiotic study of a Shugen community of ascetic practice in Japan, the Tsukasakō lay group affiliated to the Tenpōrinji temple on Mt Kongō, connected to the current revival of the pilgrimage to the twenty-eight sūtra mounds in Katsuragi (Katsuragi no nijūhasshuku kyōzuka). Through the semiotic analysis of this ethnographic case concerning a revivalist group of ascetics, I will try to challenge the still too common view of semiotics as a theory of timeless symbols and representation. On the contrary, following the works of Paris School semioticians like A. J. Greimas, P. Fabbri, M. Hammad, J. Fontanille and E. Landowski, and the material semiotic trend developed from their ideas by B. Latour, semiotics will here emerge as a theory of actions, passions, body and materiality, based on the conception of space as object of value and interacting subject, where social change is integrated into a sacred landscape through a practice of ritual enunciation performed by human and nonhuman actors.en
dc.description.sponsorshipJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Short-Term Fellowship)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationPadoan, T. (2021) 'On the Semiotics of Space in the Study of Religions: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Challenges', in Cronbach Van Boom, J. and Põder, T.-A. (eds)., Sign, Method, and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 189-214. isbn: 9783110694727en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694925-012en
dc.identifier.endpage214en
dc.identifier.isbn9783110694727
dc.identifier.startpage189en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11286
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren
dc.relation.ispartofSign, Method, and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion
dc.relation.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110694925/html
dc.subjectParis School semioticsen
dc.subjectJapanese religionsen
dc.subjectKatsuragi Shugenen
dc.subjectActor-Network-Theoryen
dc.subjectSpaceen
dc.subjectEthnosemioticsen
dc.subjectAnthropologyen
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subjectMountain Asceticismen
dc.subjectRitual enunciationen
dc.subjectTopoien
dc.subjectBodyen
dc.subjectNorepresentational theoryen
dc.subjectSocial actionen
dc.titleOn the semiotics of space in the study of religions: Theoretical perspectives and methodological challengesen
dc.typeBook chapteren
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
proof_15_Padoan_Semiotics_of_Space_in_SoR.pdf
Size:
1.97 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Accepted version
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Study of Religions - Book chapters