Analysing religious discourse / edited by Stephen Pihlaja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pihlaja, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Religious aspects.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 359 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Language plays a key role in religion, framing how people describe spiritual experience and giving structure to religious beliefs and practices. Bringing together work from a team of world-renowned scholars, this volume introduces contemporary research on religious discourse from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It introduces methods for analysis of a range of different kinds of text and talk, including institutional discourse within organised religions, discourse around spirituality and spiritual experience within religious communities, media discourse about the role of religion and spirituality in society, translations of sacred texts, political discourse, and ritual language. Engaging and easy-to-read, it is accessible to researchers across linguistics, religious studies, and other related disciplines. A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, it will become a key resource in the emerging inter-disciplinary field of language and religion.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction

2 Interaction

3 Ethnography

4 Narrative

5 Multimodality

6 Rhetoric

7 Translation

8 Institutions

9 Media

10 Community

11 Education

12 Inter-religious Dialogue

13 Rituals

14 Metaphor

15 Emotion

16 Identity

17 Cognition

18 Sacred Texts

19 Ecology

20 Conclusion

Key Terms.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-87618-8

1-108-87583-1

1-108-86395-7

OCLC:

1258117711