Knut Martin Stünkel, Ph.D. (2002), University of Bielefeld, is Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Philosophy of Religion at Ruhr University Bochum. He has published monographs and many articles on intellectual history, including Una sit religio. Religionsbegriffe und Begriffstopologien bei Llull, Cusanus und Maimonides (2013).

• Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 On Concepts and Contact2 The Andy-Warhol-Syndrome (AWS) in Postcolonial Religious Studies3 On Language4 On Method1 Attraction: Aura as PropensityTowards a Non-intentionalistic Description of Attraction in Religious Studies or: Why Religion Sucks1 Introduction: Against the Intentionalistic Stance2 Towards a Non-intentionalistic Description of Attraction3 The Process of Attraction4 Conclusion: Attraction Revisited2 Dynamics and Stability: Potentiality, Bipolarity, MetastabilitySome Theoretical Perspectives on the Conceptualization of Dynamics and Stability in the Study of Religion1 Introduction: Dynamics and the Dynamic Scholar2 ‘Dynamics’ in the Study of Religion3 Towards a General Notion of Dynamics4 Aspects of Dynamics5 Six Forms (modi) of the Dynamics-Stability Relation6 Metastability: A General Notion of the Dynamics/Stability-Relationship7 Conclusion: Bipolar Metastability in Contact3 TraditionTradition, Recursivity, and Not Identity1 Tradition’s Recursivity2 Tradition and Identity3 Conclusion: toward Self-Referential Tradition4 The Transcendence/Immanence DistinctionReligion as Contrast1 Introduction2 Transcendence/Immanence in Comparison3 The Basic Structure of the Transcendence/Immanence Distinction4 Metaphors of Transcendence5 The Three-Level Model of Transcendence6 The Process of Transcending: Cases from Ancient China, the New World, and Medieval/Early Modern Europe7 Transcending and Semiosis8 TID and Contrast9 Conclusion: Transcending, Contrast, and the Dynamics of Contact5 Making Sense of the SensesCommunicativeness, Reciprocity, Immediacy, and Scriptuality in Sensory Religious Experience1 On the Possible Role of the Study of the Senses in Religious Studies2 Object Language Examples of Ascribing Sense to the Senses3 Conclusion: the Dynamics of Sense-Making6 Secrets: Formally Indicating Blank Spaces in Situations of Religious Contact1 Secrets in the Study of Religion2 Secrets and Contact3 Secrets as Blank Spaces4 The Blank Spaces of Secrets in Contact: Translation Processes5 Conclusion: Secrets and Formal Indication of Concepts7 Space: “Quoniam, si nonnulla religio est, ut sepeliantur, non potestnulla esse, quando ubi sepeliantur adtenditur”The Dead Body as Contested Space: The Case of Augustine1 The Dead Body and Its Proper Space in Philosophy and the Studyof Religion2 Some Remarks Concerning Augustine’s Phenomenologyof the Corpse3 Dealing with the Dead: De Vera Religione, De Civitate Dei, De Cura ProMortuis Gerenda4 The Contested Dead Body and Its Directive Space—Confessiones,Book IV and IX5 Conclusion: Aspects of Space in the Dynamics of Religions8 Sleep: “Haec est somni et ratio naturalis et natura rationalis”Tertullian on Sleep as a Promotor of Contact1 Tertullian and the Question of Religious Contact2 Contact and Language3 On Sleep as an Interface of Religion4 On Sleep and Contact in Tertullian’s De AnimaProspect: Contacting the Future1 Typology of Contact2 Evolutional Semiosis and Relationality3 Explorative ConceptualizingBibliography 485Index 502