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Language and Religion

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Published/Copyright: 2019
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Language Intersections
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Volume 2 | Language Intersections

About this book

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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R.A. Yelle, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; C. Handman, University of Texas, Austin, USA; C. Lehrich, Independent Scholar, USA.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgments

    V
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    Contents

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    Introduction

    1
    Robert A. Yelle, Courtney Handman and Christopher I. Lehrich
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  • Part I: Ritual and language
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    To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system

    31
    Naphtali S. Meshel
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    Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras

    57
    Robert A. Yelle
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    Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft

    68
    Paul Copp
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    The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification

    87
    Leslie Arnovick
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    Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches

    114
    Aurélie Névot
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  • Part II: Ideologies of religious language
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    Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity

    139
    Naomi Janowitz
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    The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought

    158
    Mustafa Shah
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    Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language

    193
    Paolo Visigalli
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    Ineffability and music in early Christian theology

    215
    Laurence Wuidar
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    The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England

    243
    William Downes
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    The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style

    276
    Jenny Ponzo
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    The place of language in discursive studies of religion

    304
    Kocku von Stuckrad
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  • Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn
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    Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments

    327
    Seth L. Sanders
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    The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing

    349
    Isabel Laack
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    Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction

    382
    Patrick Eisenlohr
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    The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer

    404
    Anderson Blanton
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    “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio

    418
    Jon Bialecki
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    Contributors

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    Index

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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
February 19, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781614514329
Hardcover published on:
February 19, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9781614515906
Paperback published on:
December 7, 2020
Paperback ISBN:
9781614515944
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
468
Illustrations:
23
Tables:
4
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514329
eBook ISBN: 9781614514329
Hardcover ISBN: 9781614515906
Paperback ISBN: 9781614515944
Keywords for this book
Religion; Language; Religious Studies; Linguistic Anthropology.
Audience(s) for this book
Linguistic Anthropologists; General Linguists; Theologists.
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