Symbolon - Society for Scientific Research on Symbols

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Symbolon - Society for Scientific Symbol Research eV is an association that has made the scientific investigation of symbols in culture, science, art, myth and religion its task. The association is non-profit and acts as an association of scientists from all disciplines and those interested in questions of symbol science who deal with the field of symbolism in the context of multi-day symposia, one-day so-called symbol research groups and publications . Since 1960 the society has published the yearbook for symbol research " Symbolon ", which is published by Peter Lang Verlag and in which representatives of various subjects write interdisciplinary on topics related to symbols , signs , myths and mythology .

Research society

Since symbol research has not established itself as a scientific university subject and it is still desired in order to do justice to the interdisciplinary complexity of symbols, experts from a wide variety of fields conduct research, such as European art history, Asian art history, classical archeology and Egyptology , philosophy , psychology , and Islamic studies etc. together and in exchange with artists and representatives of various religious traditions. There are points of contact in particular with comparative religious studies and comparative mythology.

history

The company was founded in September 1955 a. a. Founded by Julius Schwabe and Manfred Lurker and has been a registered association since 1970. The Symbolon yearbooks have been published since 1960. The motto of the first conference in 1955 at the University of Basel was “microcosm - macrocosm”. The speakers were u. a. Theologians, religious researchers, ethnologists, Sino and Tibetologists, art historians, psychologists and harmonists . The Symbolon speakers and authors include the Egyptologist Erik Hornung , the Islamic scholar Annemarie Schimmel , the medieval expert Peter Dinzelbacher , the parapsychology researcher Walter von Lucadou , Titus Burckhardt , Friedrich Weinreb , Ingeborg Clarus . Members of the society are regularly available as specialists to provide advice to researchers and journalists for interviews in the media with a scientific level.

Symbolon yearbooks

The Symbolon annual volumes have been published since the 1960s based on the conference presentations.

Here are the topics of the Symbolon annual meetings in recent years:

  • Time and Timelessness, 2017
  • Sound and Cosmos, 2016
  • Heaven and Hell Journeys, 2015
  • The stars - symbolism and myths, 2014
  • Rivers and Seas - Symbols and Myths, 2013
  • About ships and fish. Signs and symbols in the water environment, 2012
  • Symbols and signs of domesticated nature II. - Sacred architecture & garden, 2011
  • Symbols & signs of domesticated nature I. - Das Haus, 2010
  • Symbols of grief and hope, 2009
  • Myths, Symbols and Rites of the Landscape, 2008
  • Numbers - Symbolism, Myth, Magic, 2007
  • Beings of other spheres - On the symbolism of angels, elves, hell beings, fantasy figures, 2006
  • Symbols of Transition, 2005
  • Symbols of Change - Change of Symbols, 2004
  • Symbolism and Religion, 2003
  • Symbols of everyday life, everyday life of symbols, 2002
  • Science and Symbols, 2001
  • Art and Symbol II, 2000
  • Art and Symbol I, 1999
  • Sacrifice and Rite, 1998
  • Doomsday and Redemption, 1997
  • Angels and Demons, 1996
  • Symbolism of the water, the spring and the well, 1995

literature

  • Jung, Herrmann (Hrsg.): Symbolon: Yearbook of the Society for Scientific Symbol Research - New Series. Volume 19 Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 9783631656044
  • Jung, Herrmann (Hrsg.): Symbolon: Yearbook of the Society for Scientific Symbol Research - New Series. Volume 18 Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62260-5 .
  • Jung, Herrmann, Rappenglück, Michael A. (Hrsg.): Symbolon: Yearbook of the Society for Scientific Symbol Research - New Series. Volume 17 Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60437-3 .
  • Manfred Lurker (Ed.): Dictionary of Symbolism (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 464). 5th, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-520-46405-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ srf / imhm; schp: Handheart in Rio: The Quasimodos of sign language? In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). August 17, 2016, accessed December 13, 2016 .