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| Author | : Valerie Hobbs |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1350095761 |
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish. Introducing the key methods required for examining religious language, Valerie Hobbs acquaints readers with the most common and important theolinguistic features and their functions. Using critical corpus-assisted discourse analysis with a focus on archaic and other lexical features, metaphor, agency and intertextuality, she examines religious language in context. Highlighting its use in both expected locations, such as modern-day prayer and politics, and unexpected locations including advertising, sport, healthcare and news media, Hobbs analyses the shifting and porous linguistic boundaries between the religious and the secular. With discussion questions and further readings for each chapter, as well as a companion website featuring suggested answers to the reflection tasks, this is the ideal introduction to the study of religious language.
| Author | : Stanley E. Porter |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1996-02-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781850755807 |
The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at the Roehampton Institute London, in February 1995, and are concerned with either theological or literary issues related to the nature of religious language. The papers offer different interpretations of a range of issues and suggest further issues that are still unresolved about the nature of religious language, from its early usage in the biblical texts to its recent use in contemporary writing and religious discourse, as well as many points in between.
| Author | : Robert Yelle |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2019-02-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1614514321 |
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 | : Ian T. Ramsey |
| Publisher | : SCM Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2015-05-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780334054634 |
The whole subject of religious and theological language is one that is likely to receive increasing attention. Professor Ramsey's original and suggestive book cannot fail to have a notable influence on future discussions, and it is indispensable to anyone who wants to follow these discussions intelligently.' So wrote John Macquarrie in the Expository Times in 1958. Subsequent events have proved him right. While invaluable for philosophers and theologians, it is clearly of more than specialist interest, as David Cairns pointed out in the Church of England Newspaper: 'written with such gusto that the reader is tempted to note passages and inflict them on his friends. It is no small achievement to have written in such a lively manner without conveying the impression of frivolity.'
| Author | : Peter Richardson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2021-03-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000347923 |
This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range of faiths, text types, and modes of interactive discourse, the authors accessibly define concepts like embodied cognition, agency, metaphor analysis, and Dynamic Systems Theory; illustrate how they can be used in analyzing religious language; and offer thorough pedagogical material to aid learning and application. Advanced students and scholars of linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive science, and religious and biblical studies will benefit from this practical guide to understanding and conducting research on religious discourse.
| Author | : Sallie McFague |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1982-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781451418002 |
". . . a liberating book about a liberating theological approach."--Christianity and Crisis"Metaphorical Theology is a brilliant piece of writing which will make an important contribution both to new thinking on he nature of religious language and also to the dialogue between Christianity and Feminist Theology."--Rosemary Radford RuetherGarrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"The great virtue of Professor McFague's book is that it tackles [some] crucial problems in an extremely perceptive and creative way . . . .All in all it is a most timely book both for the theological and for the church at large."--Maurice WilesRegius Professor of DivinityChrist Church, Oxford University
| Author | : Stanley E. Porter |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 1850757836 |
The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at the Roehampton Institute, London, in February 1995, and are concerned with either theological or literary issues related to the nature of religious language. The papers suggest further issues that are still unresolved about the nature of religious language, from its early usage in the biblical texts to its recent use in contemporary writing and religious discourse.
| Author | : Sipra Mukherjee |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2018-06-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0429880081 |
This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by ‘faith-insiders’ such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator’s role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the ‘sacred’ language with political power. The book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.
| Author | : Hyoseok Kim |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2022-02-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3161610407 |
D. Z. Phillips (1934-2006) was one of the most influential, ingenious, and perhaps controversial thinkers in the Anglo-American philosophy of religion. In particular, he is widely regarded as a leading proponent of a Wittgensteinian approach to the philosophy of religion. While almost every book on religious language or Anglophone philosophy of religion deals with Phillips' thought or, at least, mentions his name, all too frequently his position has been grossly misunderstood and has often attracted unwarranted criticism from various sides. Seeking to offer a constructive presentation and critical discussion of Phillips' view of philosophy, religious language, religious truth, and God, Hyoseok Kim endeavors to resolve some misunderstandings, refute undue criticisms of Phillips' position, and make some suggestions concerning directions in which his view might and ought to be further developed.
| Author | : Peter Donovan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Language and languages |
| ISBN | : |
