Acts of Interpretation : : Ancient Religious Semiotic Ideologies and Their Modern Echoes / / Naomi Janowitz.
Ancient authors debated proper verbal and non-verbal signs as representations of divinity. These understanding of signs were based on ideas drawn from language and thus limited due to a their partial understanding of the multi-functionality of signs. Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics, as adapted by anth...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion ,
66 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction: Explaining and Misunderstanding How Signs Work
- 1 Ancient Ideologies of Ineffability and Their Reverberations
- 2 Speech Acts and Divine Names: Comparing Ancient and Modern Linguistic Ideologies of Performativity
- 3 Creating the Forbidden Sign: Ancient and Modern Debates about Proper Representation
- 4 Late Antique and Modern Semiotic Models of Letter and Spirit
- 5 A Semiotic Approach to Ascent Liturgies
- 6 The Indeterminate Meaning of Burning Man Rituals and Modern Notions of Spirit
- Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Ninja and Tijuana Vows
- Appendix 2: Marry Yourself Vows
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of subjects