TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asad,Talal
AU  - Assmann,Jan
AU  - Auffarth,Christoph
AU  - Biernacki,Loriliai
AU  - Borsje,Jacqueline
AU  - Boyarin,Daniel
AU  - Burke,Peter
AU  - Davidsen,Markus Altena
AU  - Dika,Tarek R.
AU  - Dolgopolski,Sergey
AU  - Friedland,Roger
AU  - Hemel,Ernst van den
AU  - Kate,Laurens ten
AU  - Lambek,Michael
AU  - MacKendrick,Karmen
AU  - Marion,Jean-Luc
AU  - Molendijk,Arie L.
AU  - Moss,Kenneth B.
AU  - Nancy,Jean-Luc
AU  - Nanninga,Pieter
AU  - Schott,Nils F.
AU  - Szafraniec,Asja
AU  - Wolfson,Elliot R.
AU  - van den Hemel,Ernst
TI  - Words: Religious Language Matters 
T2  - The Future of the Religious Past
SN  - 9780823255559
U1  - 210.14 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Communication
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Religion
KW  - language
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART I. What Are Words? --; CHAPTER 1. Word as Act --; CHAPTER 2. Medieval Irish Spells --; CHAPTER 3. Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing --; CHAPTER 4. Words and Word-Bodies --; CHAPTER 5. Flesh Become Word --; PART II. Religious Vocabularies --; CHAPTER 6. Semantic Differences, or "Judaism"/"Christianity" --; CHAPTER 7. The Name God in Blanchot --; CHAPTER 8. Humanism's Cry --; CHAPTER 9. Intuition, Interpellation, Insight --; CHAPTER 10. Allowed and Forbidden Words --; PART III. Transmitting and Translating the Implicit --; CHAPTER 11. God Lisped --; CHAPTER 12. Rethinking the Implicit --; CHAPTER 13. What Cannot Be Said --; CHAPTER 14. Givenness and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology --; PART IV. Situating Oneself via Language --; CHAPTER 15. Prayer --; CHAPTER 16. A Quarrel with God --; CHAPTER 17. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics --; CHAPTER 18. The Rise of Literal-Mindedness --; CHAPTER 19. From Star Wars to Jediism --; CHAPTER 20. The Words of the Martyr --; PART V. Religious Language and Nationalism --; CHAPTER 21. Militant Religiopolitical Rhetoric --; CHAPTER 22. Thinking through Religious Nationalism --; Notes --; Contributors; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are-how they exist-in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity.The contributions in the volume develop the insight that our implicit assumptions about what language does guide the way we understand and experience religious phenomena. They also explore the possibility that insights about the particular status of religious utterances may in turn influence the way we think about words in our language
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255580?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823255580
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823255580/original
ER  -