Language and Religion / Robert Yelle, Christopher Lehrich, Courtney Handman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handman, Courtney, Editor.

Lehrich, Christopher, Editor.

Yelle, Robert, Editor.

Series:

Language intersections ; v. 2.

Language Intersections ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Religious aspects.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction / Yelle, Robert A. / Handman, Courtney / Lehrich, Christopher I.

Part I: Ritual and language

To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a "grammar" and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system / Meshel, Naphtali S.

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

Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft / Copp, Paul

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

Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches / Névot, Aurélie

Part II: Ideologies of religious language

Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity / Janowitz, Naomi

The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought / Shah, Mustafa

Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language / Visigalli, Paolo

Ineffability and music in early Christian theology / Wuidar, Laurence

The significance of "the plain style" in seventeenth-century England / Downes, William

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

The place of language in discursive studies of religion / Stuckrad, Kocku von

Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn

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

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

Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction / Eisenlohr, Patrick

The "point of contact": Radio and the transduction of healing prayer / Blanton, Anderson

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

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781614514329

1614514321

9781501500749

1501500740

OCLC:

1090459310