Frederik ElwertJust published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @sfb1475 Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.) https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434 #Metaphor #MetaphorsOfReligion #ReligiousStudies
This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #CRC1646 and #MetaNet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor annotations: https://doi.org/10.60517/tt44pq55t 🥳
SFB 1475Thank you very much for three wonderful conference days full of inspiring presentations and exciting discussions about the wide range of Metaphors of Religion! It was a great pleasure to have you here in Bochum.
This morning, the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference starts with the panel on “Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis,” including our own presentation “Religious Metaphors at Scale.” I am looking forward to the discussion!
Tatjana Scheffler
Today starts our international conference "Metaphors of Religion: Comparative Perspectives, Theoretical Potential, and Methodic Innovation" at the Convention Center of Ruhr University Bochum. Stay tuned.
Participants are warmly invited to share their impressions: #MoReConf2025
Just starting: The conference #MetaphorsOfReligion, marking the highlight of the first phase of @sfb1475. I look forward to the next three days, including the keynote presentations by Eve Sweetser and Gerard Steen! #Metaphor
Entwicklung neuer Forschungsfragen auf dem Wanderweg in Much bei der 4. SFB-Jahrestagung.
#sfb1475 #muchmore25 #metaphorsofreligion
#sfb1475 #muchmore25 #metaphorsofreligion
By tracing these metaphors, Stünkel shows how theology was not only written but fought over through words.
📖 Read more: https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/metaphorpapers/catalog/book/281
These metaphors aren’t just decorative. They…
⚔️ express conflict
🪞 provoke self-reflection
✨ transform theological arguments
Language itself becomes a battlefield where belief, doubt, and doctrine collide.