04865nam 2200673Ia 450 991045282920332120211005222339.01-4411-7237-81-283-85367-11-4411-6765-X(CKB)2550000000709185(EBL)1080384(OCoLC)819816886(MiAaPQ)EBC1080384(Au-PeEL)EBL1080384(CaPaEBR)ebr10632611(CaONFJC)MIL416617(MiAaPQ)EBC6160548(EXLCZ)99255000000070918520120321d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSemiotics of religion[electronic resource] signs of the sacred in history /Robert A. YelleLondon ;New York Bloomsbury Academic20131 online resource (257 p.)Bloomsbury advances in semioticsDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-0419-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Semiotics beyond structuralism ; Why a semiotics of religion?; A brief critical survey of some semiotic theories of religion; Semiotic recognition; Bringing history to the semiotics of religion; Outline of chapters; 2 The poetics of ritual performance ; Toward a theory of poetic performance; The rhetoric of spells; The principles of spell-construction; The function of spellsThe production of certainty: analogical punishments and trials by ordealChiasmus and communication; Repetition, chiasmus, and salvation; The reality of magic; The question of deception: Pavlov's dogs and dirty dancing; Excursus: encounter with a fakir; 3 Natural, arbitrary, and divine languages ; The naturalization of arbitrariness; "The tyranny of taxonomies"; "I pooh-pooh the purity": etymologies in Hindu and British traditions; "Natural language[s] of the hand": gesture and the question of arbitrarinessJohn Bulwer's Chirologia and ChironomiaHindu dance: gesture in the Natyasastra; Mudras in Hindu Tantra; 4 Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular ; Literalism: what is old and what new?; Iconoclasm and literalism; Statutes versus statues: Bentham's attack on the idols of language; Semiotics and the question of the secular5 Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of Protestant literalism and print culture The repudiation of ritual: attacks on ritual repetition and poetic performance; The literacy hypothesis; "To have and to hold"; The literacy hypothesis revisited; 6 Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas's structuralist idea of the HolyDeist semiotics and the attack on revelationThe dietary laws revisited; Conclusion ; Religion and communication; Arbitrariness and certainty; From pragmatics to semantics, and back again; Reason, autonomy, and the critique of the sign; Last words; Notes ; Bibliography ; IndexFollowing the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. <i>Semiotics of Religion</i> 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 thBloomsbury advances in semiotics.SemioticsHistoryReligionHistorySemioticsReligious aspectsStructuralism (Literary analysis)Representation (Philosophy)Electronic books.SemioticsHistory.ReligionHistory.SemioticsReligious aspects.Structuralism (Literary analysis)Representation (Philosophy)302.2Yelle Robert A878146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452829203321Semiotics of religion1960477UNINA