LEADER 04865nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910452829203321 005 20211005222339.0 010 $a1-4411-7237-8 010 $a1-283-85367-1 010 $a1-4411-6765-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000709185 035 $a(EBL)1080384 035 $a(OCoLC)819816886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1080384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1080384 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632611 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416617 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6160548 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000709185 100 $a20120321d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSemiotics of religion$b[electronic resource] $esigns of the sacred in history /$fRobert A. Yelle 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cBloomsbury Academic$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 0 $aBloomsbury advances in semiotics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-0419-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 spells 327 $aThe 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 arbitrariness 327 $aJohn 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 secular 327 $a5 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 Holy 327 $aDeist 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 ; Index 330 $aFollowing the heyday of Le?vi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics of Religion reassesses key semiotic theories in the light of religious data. Yelle examines the semiotics of religion from structural and historical perspectives, drawing on Peircean linguistic anthropology, Jakobsonian poetics, comparative religion and several theological traditions. This book pays particular attention to the transformation of religious symbolism under modernization and the rise of a culture of the printed book. Among th 410 0$aBloomsbury advances in semiotics. 606 $aSemiotics$xHistory 606 $aReligion$xHistory 606 $aSemiotics$xReligious aspects 606 $aStructuralism (Literary analysis) 606 $aRepresentation (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSemiotics$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion$xHistory. 615 0$aSemiotics$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aStructuralism (Literary analysis) 615 0$aRepresentation (Philosophy) 676 $a302.2 700 $aYelle$b Robert A$0878146 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452829203321 996 $aSemiotics of religion$91960477 997 $aUNINA