Abstract
Research paper presentation at "Image, Phenomenon, and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience" The Society for Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Biennial Congress. This research presentation dealt with the phenomenon of the perception of a visual system, which surfaced during the middle ages, in parallel with Christian thought.
Stripes prompted scandals, and clothing provided the most visible medium for it. From the Jew, to the madman of the Book of Psalms, to the character of Judas, you were seen as an outcast if you were wearing the suspect system of lines.
Why was this distinction chosen to designate a negative status? Was it more of a visual than a scriptural problem? Priority is given to the Gestalt-theory and semiotic interpretation of the stripe as an artistic element to develop new definitions in the phenomenology of visual experience.