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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Intersections ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 468 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614515906
  • 9781501500749
  • 9781614514329
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 210.1/4 23
LOC classification:
  • MLCM 2021/44070 (B)
  • BL65.L2 L36 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ritual and language -- To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system -- Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras -- Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft -- The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification -- Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches -- Part II: Ideologies of religious language -- Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity -- The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought -- Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language -- Ineffability and music in early Christian theology -- The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England -- The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style -- The place of language in discursive studies of religion -- Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn -- Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments -- The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing -- Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction -- The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer -- “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio -- Contributors -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ritual and language -- To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system -- Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras -- Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft -- The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification -- Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches -- Part II: Ideologies of religious language -- Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity -- The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought -- Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language -- Ineffability and music in early Christian theology -- The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England -- The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style -- The place of language in discursive studies of religion -- Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn -- Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments -- The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing -- Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction -- The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer -- “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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