Metaphors of everyday life (C03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441126958

The project explores religious metaphors from the semantic field of ordinary, everyday life. These metaphors revolve around a semantic gap: the discrepancy between the common, lowly character of the source domain and the high, sublime qualities of an evoked divine sphere. Metaphors of everyday thus respond to a challenge of religious discourse: the difference between immanence and transcendence which they seek to bridge in a bold advance. We will retrace this imagery in the works of Cusanus and Melanchthon, whose religious language develops in dia-logue with ancient and biblical sources as well as the discourses of their time.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1475: Metaphors of Religion. Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Linda Simonis