Words : : Religious Language Matters / / ed. by Asja Szafraniec, Ernst van den Hemel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Asad, Talal,; Assmann, Jan,; Auffarth, Christoph,; Biernacki, Loriliai,; Borsje, Jacqueline,; Boyarin, Daniel,; Burke, Peter,; Davidsen, Markus Altena,; Dika, Tarek R.,; Dolgopolski, Sergey,; Friedland, Roger,; Hemel, Ernst van den,; Kate, Laurens ten,; Lambek, Michael,; MacKendrick, Karmen,; Marion, Jean-Luc,; Molendijk, Arie L.,; Moss, Kenneth B.,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; Nanninga, Pieter,; Schott, Nils F.,; Szafraniec, Asja,; Wolfson, Elliot R.,; van den Hemel, Ernst,
• HerausgeberIn: Hemel, Ernst van den,; Szafraniec, Asja,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Future of the Religious Past
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (614 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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