Language and religion / edited by Robert A. Yelle, Courtney Handman, Christopher I. Lehrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yelle, Robert A., editor.

Handman, Courtney, 1975- editor.

Lehrich, Christopher I., editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Language intersections ; v. 2.

Language intersections ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Religious aspects.

Language and languages.

Communication--Religious aspects.

Communication.

Linguistics--Religious aspects.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 468 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Ritual and Language

To be taken with a grain of salts Between a "grammar" and a Grammur of a sacrificial ritual system p. 31 / Naphtali S. Meshel

Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras p. 57 / Robert A. Yelle

Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft p. 68 / Paul Copp

The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification p. 87 / Leslie Arnovick

Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches p. 114 / Aurélie Névot

Part II Ideologies of religious language

Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity p. 139 / Naomi Janowitz

The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought p. 158 / Mustafa Shah

Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language p. 193 / Paolo Visigalli

Ineffability and music in early Christian theology p. 215 / Laurence Wuidar

The significance of "the plain style" in seventeenth-century England p. 243 / William Downes

The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style p. 276 / Jenny Ponzo

The place of language in discursive studies of religion p. 304 / Kocku von Stuckrad

Part III Media and materiality after the linguistic turn

Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments p. 327 / Seth L. Sanders

The (poetic) imagery of "flower and song" in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing p. 349 / Isabel Laack

Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction p. 382 / Patrick Eisenlohr

The "point of contact": Radio and the transduction of healing prayer p. 404 / Anderson Blanton

"The Lord says you speak as harlots": Affect, affectus, and affectio p. 418 / Jon Bialecki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614514329

1614514321

Publisher Number:

40029077707

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