Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: Mediation and immediacy, a key issue for the semiotics of religion -- Part I: Classical traditions -- Immediacy and mediation in Philo's interpretation of divine names -- "Anì velo mal'akh": Are angels in the Torah a sort of medium? -- The angel as an intercultural medium -- Medieval theology and the theory of signs -- Transcending the body: The semiotics of an out-of-body experience reported by Mechthild of Magdeburg -- The supremacy of the Qur'anic sign and its impacts on the Arabic Muslim culture -- Arguments for immediacy and mediation in classical Advaita-Vedānta -- Part II: Contemporary movements -- Religious-artistic epiphanies in 20th-century literature: Joyce, Claudel, Weil, C.S. Lewis, Rebora, and Papini -- On vain repetitions: The enactment of collective subjectivities through speaking in unison -- The other Buddha: Leaving monasteries, fighting the enemy -- Part III: Religious legal systems -- Mediation and immediacy in the Jewish legal tradition -- The doodling of Jesus: A semiotic inquiry into the rhetoric of immediacy -- Legal theology and communication: The meaning of Christian eschatology between immanence and transcendence in contemporary social sciences -- Post-secular jurisprudence: A visual semiotics of the sacred source of law's authority -- Contributors -- Index