Language and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Religion write by Robert Yelle. This book was released on 2019-02-19. Language and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Languages of Religion
The Languages of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Languages of Religion write by Sipra Mukherjee. This book was released on 2018-06-14. The Languages of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion write by Tope Omoniyi. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Religion, Language, and Power
Religion, Language, and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Language, and Power write by Nile Green. This book was released on 2008-07-15. Religion, Language, and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
An Introduction to Religious Language
An Introduction to Religious Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to Religious Language write by Valerie Hobbs. This book was released on 2020-12-10. An Introduction to Religious Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
