<anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="id_docs-internal-guid-554d791b-7fff-f4e2-dfef-fd51ca6c10bd" /> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)">The collaborative research center (CRC) 1475</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)"><ref n="2" target="ftn2" /> </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)"> </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)">studies the role of metaphors in religious meaning-making.</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)"> </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)">In metaphors, meaning is transferred from one semantic domain to another. Metaphors can thus serve as a means to express abstract concepts with reference to more concrete ones closer to human experience. Religion, which cannot directly address its ultimate subject (the transcendent, i.e., gods, otherworlds, etc.), is especially dependent on this procedure. By adopting conceptual metaphor theory </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)">(</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)">Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Steen et al., 2010; Nacey et al., 2019)</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)"> </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(#000000) background-color(#ffffff)">the CRC seeks to more thoroughly understand this process theoretically and grasp it methodologically to research its semantic forms empirically and comparatively. Through its multidisciplinary subprojects the CRC contributes to the historiography of religions and to answering systematic questions in the comparative study of religions. It covers a plethora of religious traditions from across the globe, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Daoism. The time frame ranges from 3,000 BCE to the present day, including texts from multiple languages and diverse genres, from Korean Confucian ego-documents to Christian online forums.</hi>