Semiotics 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 Semiotics of Religion write by Robert A. Yelle. This book was released on 2012-11-22. Semiotics of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics of Religion reassesses key semiotic theories in the light of religious data. Yelle examines the semiotics of religion from structural and historical perspectives, drawing on Peircean linguistic anthropology, Jakobsonian poetics, comparative religion and several theological traditions. This book pays particular attention to the transformation of religious symbolism under modernization and the rise of a culture of the printed book. Among the topics addressed are: - ritual repetition and the poetics of ritual performance - magic and the belief in a natural (iconic) language - Protestant literalism and iconoclasm - disenchantment and secularization - Holiness, arbitrariness, and agency Building from the legacy of structuralism while interrogating several key doctrines of that movement, Semiotics of Religion both introduces the field to a new generation and charts a course for future research.
Changing Signs of Truth
Changing Signs of Truth - 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 Changing Signs of Truth write by Crystal L. Downing. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Changing Signs of Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory - 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 Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory write by Carl A. Raschke. This book was released on 2012. Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.
Sign, Method and the Sacred
Sign, Method and the Sacred - 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 Sign, Method and the Sacred write by Jason Cronbach Van Boom. This book was released on 2021-08-23. Sign, Method and the Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology? The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors. The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.
Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends
Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends - 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 Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends write by Pål Repstad. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distinguished contributors focus on the relationship between politics and religion, and on ordinary people’s religious life. These topics are approached through empirical studies and theoretical discussions, and editor Pål Repstad demonstrates the need for a closer relationship between the two topics.
