Language and Religion

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Language and Religion

Edited by: Robert Yelle , Courtney Handman and Christopher Lehrich

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 2 | Language Intersections

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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.

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Robert A. Yelle, Courtney Handman and Christopher I. Lehrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Ritual and language
To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system Naphtali S. Meshel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras Robert A. Yelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft Paul Copp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification Leslie Arnovick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches Aurélie Névot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
Part II: Ideologies of religious language
Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity Naomi Janowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought Mustafa Shah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language Paolo Visigalli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Ineffability and music in early Christian theology Laurence Wuidar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England William Downes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style Jenny Ponzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
The place of language in discursive studies of religion Kocku von Stuckrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	304
Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn
Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments Seth L. Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing Isabel Laack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction Patrick Eisenlohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	382
The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer Anderson Blanton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	404
“The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio Jon Bialecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	418
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	442
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	449

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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

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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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