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...

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