Christopher I Lehrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1447318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher I Lehrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher I |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehrich |
| SIGNATURE | LEHRICH C I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Lyre of Orpheus
Journal Article The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, & the Profane . By Christopher Partridge Get access The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, & the Profane . By Christopher Partridge. Oxford University Press, 2013. 368 pages. $105.00. Christopher I. Lehrich Christopher I. Lehrich Boston University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy o…
Hearing Transcendence
Tōru Takemitsu (1930–96), dean of Japanese composers, wrote scores for 100 films. In many cases, he faced the task of giving presence to an unseen, suprahuman force or being. This article deploys musical semiotics and topic theory to examine a gesture I call “distorted iconism,” in which an aural resemblance is altered so as to suggest transcendence. I analyze distorted iconism in Takemitsu’s film work, looking initially at Kwaidan , Hi-Matsuri ,…
The Unanswered Question
Several of the great “founding fathers” of theory of religion discerned a deep connection between religion and music, particularly Western “classical” music. Our relatively recent acceptance that “religion” as universal category was an early modern European invention should prompt suspicion that this connection is historically specific. Yet while scholars in many disciplines have recognized the importance of music in Western imagination, modern s…
Orphic revenge
This article examines Robert A. Yelle's Semiotics of Religion. The author argues that the project is weakened by an over-privileging of language as the only mode of semiosis. Using the figure of Orpheus and the semiotic exteriority of music, the author suggests that a semiotics of religion must escape this most fundamental logocentrism if it is not simply to perpetuate the ideological gestures Yelle works hardest to expose
Re-forming the Undergraduate Curriculum
This chapter presents Jonathan Z. Smith's account of the development of undergraduate education. He says that “coherence and organization will not emerge from merely rearranging already existing courses by a process that resembles Lévi-Strauss's bricolage; it will only be achieved by courses specifically designed to fulfill widely agreed upon educational purposes.” He also identifies a shift from a language of topics and subjects to a language of…
Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjuror of England
Journal Article Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee. Get access Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2011. Pp. xii, 335. $55.00. Christopher I. Lehrich Christopher I. Lehrich Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 5, December 2013, Pages 1595–1596, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/…
On Teaching Religion
"For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship on religion in matters of education and public policy. Education is not a side issue for Smith, and his essays continually shed light on fundamental questions. What diffe…
Overture and Finale
Claude Levi-Strauss's writings are filled with intricate discussions of music, seemingly intended to clarify his thinking about myth and ritual. His peculiar, idiosyncratic musical remarks point in surprising directions, posing a significant and continuing challenge to scholars of religion. In an important recent book, music semiologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez explicates Levi-Strauss's musical ideas and levels a number of strong criticisms. Drawing …
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
Florian Ebeling. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Trans. David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xiii + 158 pp. index. gloss. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4546-0. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Documents Oubliés sur l'Alchimie, la Kabbale, et Guillaume Postel
Sommaire: Bibliographie des travaux de Francois Secret. Articles de : Henri Dominique Saffrey, Porphyre dans la Patrologie de Migne. Sur la divination; Nicolas Sed, Deux documents sur la kabbale : Commentaire sur le Sepher Yesirah de Moise ben Nahman et le Traite des Heykalot; Alfredo Perifano, Le Tractato iustissimo fabricato per me an. C. de la vera e de la falsa alchimia; Marie Madeleine Fontaine, Les attaques de Pietro Del Monte contre l’alch…
Letters (MR 216)
Rudolph Agricola. Letters (MR 216). Eds. Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. x + 436 pp. index. illus. gloss, bibl. $38. ISBN: 0-86698-252-2. - Volume 56 Issue 4
Investigations into Magic
Martín del Rio. Investigations into Magic. Ed. and trans. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press/St. Martin's Press, 2000. xi + 290 pp. index, bibl. $74.95. ISBN: 0-7190-4976-8. - Volume 56 Issue 1
Labyrinth
The Occult in Early Modern Europe
The Unanswered Question
Several of the great “founding fathers” of theory of religion discerned a deep connection between religion and music, particularly Western “classical” music. Our relatively recent acceptance that “religion” as universal category was an early modern European invention should prompt suspicion that this connection is historically specific. Yet while scholars in many disciplines have recognized the importance of music in Western imagination, modern s…
Overture and Finale
Claude Levi-Strauss's writings are filled with intricate discussions of music, seemingly intended to clarify his thinking about myth and ritual. His peculiar, idiosyncratic musical remarks point in surprising directions, posing a significant and continuing challenge to scholars of religion. In an important recent book, music semiologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez explicates Levi-Strauss's musical ideas and levels a number of strong criticisms. Drawing …
Hearing Transcendence
Tōru Takemitsu (1930–96), dean of Japanese composers, wrote scores for 100 films. In many cases, he faced the task of giving presence to an unseen, suprahuman force or being. This article deploys musical semiotics and topic theory to examine a gesture I call “distorted iconism,” in which an aural resemblance is altered so as to suggest transcendence. I analyze distorted iconism in Takemitsu’s film work, looking initially at Kwaidan , Hi-Matsuri ,…
The Occult in Early Modern Europe
Labyrinth
Documents Oubliés sur l'Alchimie, la Kabbale, et Guillaume Postel
Sommaire: Bibliographie des travaux de Francois Secret. Articles de : Henri Dominique Saffrey, Porphyre dans la Patrologie de Migne. Sur la divination; Nicolas Sed, Deux documents sur la kabbale : Commentaire sur le Sepher Yesirah de Moise ben Nahman et le Traite des Heykalot; Alfredo Perifano, Le Tractato iustissimo fabricato per me an. C. de la vera e de la falsa alchimia; Marie Madeleine Fontaine, Les attaques de Pietro Del Monte contre l’alch…
Letters (MR 216)
Rudolph Agricola. Letters (MR 216). Eds. Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. x + 436 pp. index. illus. gloss, bibl. $38. ISBN: 0-86698-252-2. - Volume 56 Issue 4
Investigations into Magic
Martín del Rio. Investigations into Magic. Ed. and trans. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press/St. Martin's Press, 2000. xi + 290 pp. index, bibl. $74.95. ISBN: 0-7190-4976-8. - Volume 56 Issue 1
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
Florian Ebeling. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Trans. David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xiii + 158 pp. index. gloss. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4546-0. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Overture and Finale
Claude Levi-Strauss's writings are filled with intricate discussions of music, seemingly intended to clarify his thinking about myth and ritual. His peculiar, idiosyncratic musical remarks point in surprising directions, posing a significant and continuing challenge to scholars of religion. In an important recent book, music semiologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez explicates Levi-Strauss's musical ideas and levels a number of strong criticisms. Drawing …
On Teaching Religion
"For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship on religion in matters of education and public policy. Education is not a side issue for Smith, and his essays continually shed light on fundamental questions. What diffe…
Re-forming the Undergraduate Curriculum
This chapter presents Jonathan Z. Smith's account of the development of undergraduate education. He says that “coherence and organization will not emerge from merely rearranging already existing courses by a process that resembles Lévi-Strauss's bricolage; it will only be achieved by courses specifically designed to fulfill widely agreed upon educational purposes.” He also identifies a shift from a language of topics and subjects to a language of…
Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjuror of England
Journal Article Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee. Get access Glyn Parry. The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2011. Pp. xii, 335. $55.00. Christopher I. Lehrich Christopher I. Lehrich Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 5, December 2013, Pages 1595–1596, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/…
Hearing Transcendence
Tōru Takemitsu (1930–96), dean of Japanese composers, wrote scores for 100 films. In many cases, he faced the task of giving presence to an unseen, suprahuman force or being. This article deploys musical semiotics and topic theory to examine a gesture I call “distorted iconism,” in which an aural resemblance is altered so as to suggest transcendence. I analyze distorted iconism in Takemitsu’s film work, looking initially at Kwaidan , Hi-Matsuri ,…
The Unanswered Question
Several of the great “founding fathers” of theory of religion discerned a deep connection between religion and music, particularly Western “classical” music. Our relatively recent acceptance that “religion” as universal category was an early modern European invention should prompt suspicion that this connection is historically specific. Yet while scholars in many disciplines have recognized the importance of music in Western imagination, modern s…
Orphic revenge
This article examines Robert A. Yelle's Semiotics of Religion. The author argues that the project is weakened by an over-privileging of language as the only mode of semiosis. Using the figure of Orpheus and the semiotic exteriority of music, the author suggests that a semiotics of religion must escape this most fundamental logocentrism if it is not simply to perpetuate the ideological gestures Yelle works hardest to expose
The Lyre of Orpheus
Journal Article The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, & the Profane . By Christopher Partridge Get access The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, & the Profane . By Christopher Partridge. Oxford University Press, 2013. 368 pages. $105.00. Christopher I. Lehrich Christopher I. Lehrich Boston University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy o…
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