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Sign, Method and the Sacred New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boom, Jason Cronbach Van.
- Series:
- Religion and Reason Ser.
- Religion and Reason Ser. ; v.64
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics--Religious aspects.
- Semiotics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Introducing new directions in semiotic methodologies for the study of religion
- PART I: Theoretical perspectives
- Religion in the semiosphere: Theosemiotics in dialogue with Juri Lotman
- Reveal and re-veil the sacred: Fetishism and fetishes in religious social discourse and practices
- Vain repetitions: The role of joint speech in enacting collective subjectivities
- Theology, metasemiosis and the ethics of attention
- PART II: Applications: Texts and case studies
- The semiotics of likeness: Identity, verisimilitude and falsity in Augustine
- An overlooked episode in the history of semiotics: The iconoclast controversy and its relevance for the iconic turn
- Semiotics against transubstantiation: Peirce's reception of Berkeley
- A Peircean approach to late antique ascent texts
- On the Semiotics of Space in the Study of Religions: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Challenges
- Religion and the semiotization of space: The case of the Madonna del Rocciamelone
- Colors as a semiotic tool for Bible analysis
- Form and force of the sacred: A semiotic study of the temptations of Saint Anthony
- Authors and editors biographies
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Van Boom, Jason Cronbach Sign, Method and the Sacred
- ISBN:
- 9783110694925
- 3110694921
- Publisher Number:
- 40030703605
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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