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Semiotics of religion : signs of the sacred in history / Robert A. Yelle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yelle, Robert A.
- Series:
- Advances in semiotics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics--History.
- Semiotics.
- History.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Semiotics--Religious aspects.
- Structuralism (Literary analysis).
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012.
- Contents:
- Semiotics beyond structuralism
- The poetics of ritual performance
- natural, arbitrary, and divine languages
- Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular
- Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of protestant literalism and print culture
- Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas' structuralist idea of the holy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441142825
- 1441142827
- 9781441104199
- 1441104194
- 9781441167651
- 144116765X
- 9781441172372
- 1441172378
- OCLC:
- 777652908
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