Introduction:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Introduction: "
Xenia Zeiler, Judith Stander-Dulisch

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082536
Doc. No	:	LA126165
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21659214-00703002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Judith Stander-Dulisch
	:	Xenia Zeiler
Title & Author	:	Introduction: [Article] : Ascribing Meaning to the Semantic Field “Sacred” in Academic Research and Current Journalism\ Xenia Zeiler, Judith Stander-Dulisch
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	7/3
Page No	:	269–278
Abstract	:	The term “sacred” has a long history, but this introduction demonstrates that the concept of a contrast between the sacred or holy and the profane or trivial arose only at the beginning of the 20th century. A shared characteristic of definitions of the sacred or holy is that they are something special which is separated from the profane or trivial world. In the research discourse, sacred is not just a critical but also a controversial term. In our two case studies, we set out to analyze how meaning is ascribed to the semantic field “sacred”. Building on Laclau’s concept of empty signifiers () and the understanding that sacred and related terms of the lexical/semantic field are not stable but have ever-changing meanings, we explore how the semantic field is filled in academic and contemporary journalistic contexts.
Descriptor	:	empty signifier
Descriptor	:	holy
Descriptor	:	journalism
Descriptor	:	media
Descriptor	:	profane
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	sacred
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	trivial
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21659214-00703002‬