Language and Religion / / ed. by Robert Yelle, Christopher Lehrich, Courtney Handman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Arnovick, Leslie,; Bialecki, Jon,; Blanton, Anderson,; Copp, Paul,; Downes, William,; Eisenlohr, Patrick,; Handman, Courtney,; Janowitz, Naomi,; Laack, Isabel,; Lehrich, Christopher I.,; Meshel, Naphtali S.,; Névot, Aurélie,; Ponzo, Jenny,; Sanders, Seth L.,; Shah, Mustafa,; Stuckrad, Kocku von,; Visigalli, Paolo,; Wuidar, Laurence,; Yelle, Robert A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Handman, Courtney,; Lehrich, Christopher,; Yelle, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Language Intersections , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 468 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ritual and language -- To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system -- Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras -- Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft -- The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification -- Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches -- Part II: Ideologies of religious language -- Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity -- The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought -- Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language -- Ineffability and music in early Christian theology -- The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England -- The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style -- The place of language in discursive studies of religion -- Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn -- Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments -- The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing -- Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction -- The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer -- “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio -- Contributors -- Index