Transcendence and Transgression in Religious Processions

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ID13085698
AuthorsMassimo Leone (0000-0002-8144-4337, University of Turin, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume2
Issue2
Pages314-349
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSigns and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-4489 • E-ISSN: 2326-4497
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/677957
OpenAlexW2040829200
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited14

This article analyzes the phenomenology and semiotics of religious processions. On the one hand, these rituals succeed in congregating several individual agencies, thus helping them to obliterate the frontier between the sacred environment of the place of worship and the profane environment of the space surrounding it. Consequently, in religious processions, subjects experience an enlargement of the environment of the sacred that encourages them to believe in its omnipresence, in the reassuring idea that their entire existence takes place (literally and metaphorically) under the protection of transcendence. On the other hand, “accidents” caused by the persistence of individual agencies within the collective one constantly “threaten” the symbolic efficacy of religious processions: the tentative expansion of the sacred environment into the profane results in a symmetrical expansion of the latter into the former

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Geomorphology · Immanence · Marine transgression · Transcendence (philosophy · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Geology

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