Making porosity more porous : an open call for brainstorming after Tanya Luhrmanns recent findings

De Jager, Juan Esteban (author)

This article explores the potential of “porosity” in understanding the “supernatural”, particularly in interactions with spirits and gods. According to Luhrmann, a “porous” self is key to experiencing the supernatural. Unlike a “buffered” self with a compacted boundary between mind and world, a porous self integrates anomalous experiences more easily. Sharing Luhrmann’s transdisciplinary approach, this article looks into the potential of porosity in addressing reflexivity challenges and phenomenological ones, while advocating for more porous transdisciplinary communication.

• Language: English
• Keywords: porosity, religious studies, transdisciplinarity, phenomenology, spatial metaphors
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication date: 01.07.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 14-29
• Numbering: Letn. 2, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-160048-4ab9dd5d-7297-64d6-375d-99793a74da5d
• UDC: 2:39
• ISSN on article: 2820-6088
• DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.2.2.14-29
• COBISS.SI-ID: 204078339
• Publication date in RUL: 12.08.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Svetovi
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2820-6088
• COBISS.SI-ID: 148550403

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Narediti poroznost bolj porozno : odprt poziv k razmišljanju po nedavnih ugotovitvah Tanye Luhrmann

Abstract

Članek raziskuje potencial »poroznosti« za razumevanje »nadnaravnega«, zlasti v interakcijah z duhovi in bogovi. Za Tanyo Luhrmann je »porozen« jaz ključnega pomena za doživljanje nadnaravnega. Za razliko od »zaščitenega« jaza s strnjeno mejo med umom in svetom, porozen jaz lažje integrira anomalne izkušnje. Članek na podlagi transdisciplinarnega pristopa Luhrmannove proučuje potencial poroznosti pri obravnavanju izzivov refleksivnosti in fenomenoloških izzivov, hkrati pa se zavzema za bolj porozno transdisciplinarno komunikacijo.

• Keywords: psihološka antropologija, religija, religijske študije, nadnaravno, transdisciplinarnost, fenomenologija, prostorske metafore, poroznost

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: 101095729
• Name: The roles of the agency of the dead in the lives of individuals in contemporary society
• Acronym: DEAGENCY