Language and Religion

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2019

Language and Religion

Edited by: Robert Yelle, Courtney Handman and Christopher Lehrich

Volume 2 in the series Language Intersections

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514329

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Contents

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.

Author information

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

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Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Accessible Download PDF	V
Contents Accessible Download PDF	VII
Introduction Robert A. Yelle, Courtney Handman and Christopher I. Lehrich Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	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 Accessible Download PDF	31
Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras Robert A. Yelle Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	57
Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft Paul Copp Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	68
The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification Leslie Arnovick Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	87
Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches Aurélie Névot Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	114
Part II: Ideologies of religious language
Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity Naomi Janowitz Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	139
The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought Mustafa Shah Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	158
Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language Paolo Visigalli Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	193
Ineffability and music in early Christian theology Laurence Wuidar Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	215
The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England William Downes Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	243
The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style Jenny Ponzo Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	276
The place of language in discursive studies of religion Kocku von Stuckrad Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	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 Accessible Download PDF	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 Accessible Download PDF	349
Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction Patrick Eisenlohr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	382
The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer Anderson Blanton Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	404
“The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio Jon Bialecki Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	418
Contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	442
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	449

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguistic Anthropologists; General Linguists; Theologists.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 468
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 23
- Tables: 4
Keywords: Religion; Language; Religious Studies; Linguistic Anthropology.

eBook

Published: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9781614514329

Hardcover

Published: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9781614515906

Paperback

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9781614515944