Language and ReligionRobert Yelle, Courtney Handman, Christopher Lehrich This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion. |
Contents
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Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras | 57 |
Hints of ritualist craft | 68 |
Deinstitutionalization and subjectification | 87 |
Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches | 114 |
Ideologies of religious language | 139 |
The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought | 158 |
A question of semiotic style | 276 |
The place of language in discursive studies of religion | 304 |
Media and materiality after the linguistic turn | 327 |
Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing | 349 |
Sound reproduction and transduction | 382 |
Radio and the transduction of healing prayer | 404 |
Affect affectus and affectio | 418 |
Contributors | 442 |
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