The Language Of Religion
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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 | : 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 | : William Downes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139494937 |
Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations, dependent on language to unify diverse capacities of the human mind. It argues that religion is widespread because it is implicit in the way the mind processes the world, as it determines what we ought to do, practically and morally, to achieve our goals. Focusing on the world religions, the book relates modern cognitive theories of language and communication to culture and its dissemination. It explains basic features of religion such as the supernatural, the normative, abstract and ideal theological concepts such as 'God', and religious feeling. It develops a linguistic theory, based on how utterances are understood, of metaphysical and moral 'mysteries' and their key role in thought and action. It shows how such concepts gain strength in the light of their successful use and, when tempered by criticism, can also have genuine authority.
Author | : Francis Collins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1847396151 |
Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
Author | : Tope Omoniyi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027227101 |
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Author | : Nile Green |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2008-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1135892873 |
Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers of power, whether scripturalist or otherwise normative and dominant. This book’s de-centering of English classifications goes beyond the remit of most postcolonial studies in that it explores the classifications used in a range of languages — including Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Greek and English — to achieve a comparative survey of the roles of language and power in the making of ‘religion’ . In contextualizing these uses of language, the ten contributors explore how labels are either imposed or emerge interactively through discursive struggles between dominant and marginal groups. In dealing with the interplay of religion, language and power, there is no other book with the breadth of this volume.
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 | : James Ian Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian P. Bennett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2011-04-29 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1136736131 |
Church Slavonic, one of the world’s historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture.
Author | : William J. Samarin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |