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100 1 0 _aCatellani, Andrea
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aWriting and teaching Christian meditation and contemplation: Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises
260 _c2016.
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520 _aThis article presents an analysis of the Spiritual Exercises by Saint Ignatius Loyola (1548), based on a semiotic approach. The article starts with a general theoretical proposition on meditation in the Christian context. The next part is dedicated to the analysis of the “device” that is built by the Ignatian book. This text is analyzed as a cultural object able to “prefigure” practices and the building blocks of a whole spiritual form of life. This analysis integrates and reworks some propositions of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. The contribution of this last author is specifically focused, in order to identify different levels of practices and texts that are prefigured by the Ignatian book. The article ends by situating the Ignatian device in a historical perspective of the evolution of Western Christian spirituality.
690 _atext
690 _aJesuits
690 _aSpiritual exercises
690 _asemiotics
690 _aspirituality
690 _aIgnatius Loyola
690 _ameditation
690 _acommunication
690 _areligion
786 0 _nCommunication & langages | o 189 | 3 | 2016-09-01 | p. 85-105 | 0336-1500
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-communication-et-langages1-2016-3-page-85?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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