Embodiment outside the body? Out-of-body experiences in a cognitive and so-cial science perspective
(B05)
Subject Area
Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441126958
The research project will focus on metaphors that occur in descriptions of out-of-body experi-ences. These will be taken out of textual sources from different cultures of antiquity, namely from the ancient Near East, Persia, Greece, Rome, India, China, and the Hebrew Bible. The pro-ject aims to bring into conversation the CRC’s communicative approach with cognitive approach-es, which are relevant both in general metaphor studies and in the study of religion. Embodiment and metaphor form the core concepts, the theoretical scope and viability of which will be exam-ined in a triangulation between cognitive and social science methods.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
