RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE AS POETRY: HEIDEGGER's CHALLENGE

Fundamentalism as a Challenge for Religious Education

Empirical research on fundamentalist biographies—presented are three case studies and a summary of research results—demonstrate the complex biographical-motivational factors for fundamentalist turns, but also a transformational potential. Explaining fundamentalist conversion and deconversion within a theoretical framework of fundamentalism as “modern anti-modernism” and as “dislocation of relig...

Metaphor, Religious Language and Religious Experience

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

The poetry of mycological accomplishment and challenge

Adaptation is the evolutionary process that has given us the remarkable diversity of fungi and I cannot think of a theme better suited to bringing together the wide variety of topics at this congress: pathogenicity, cell biology, genomics, evolution and ecology. It is also a timely theme because the latest biological innovation, genomics, has stimulated new thinking about the types of genetic v...

Lyric Poetry as Society

Psychoanalysis as poetry.

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...