Acts of Interpretation / Naomi Janowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janowitz, Naomi, author.

Series:

Religion and Reason

Religion and Reason ; v.66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Religious aspects.

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Explaining and Misunderstanding How Signs Work

1 Ancient Ideologies of Ineffability and Their Reverberations

2 Speech Acts and Divine Names: Comparing Ancient and Modern Linguistic Ideologies of Performativity

3 Creating the Forbidden Sign: Ancient and Modern Debates about Proper Representation

4 Late Antique and Modern Semiotic Models of Letter and Spirit

5 A Semiotic Approach to Ascent Liturgies

6 The Indeterminate Meaning of Burning Man Rituals and Modern Notions of Spirit

Conclusions

Appendix 1: Ninja and Tijuana Vows

Appendix 2: Marry Yourself Vows

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Index of subjects

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Janowitz, Naomi Acts of Interpretation

ISBN:

9783110768602