The role of transcultural semantics and symbols for resilience during the Corona pandemic - a hermeneutic approach to historical and intercultural expressions of severe crisis

This project follows a hermeneutic approach and combines historical perspectives, semantic analysis, cultural theory and anthropology to investigate the impact of transcultural - often religious and spiritual - symbolism on resilience in the transcultural dimension of the Corona pandemic. Resilience has once again become a concept of central importance during the Corona pandemic, as in so many moments of crisis, resilience develops in individual and social contexts, and finds expression in diverse semantic and symbolic reactions to actual and expected scenarios.