Words: Religious Language Matters
Examines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New York
Fordham University Press
2016
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| Dans: | Année: 2016 |
| Collection/Revue: | The Future of the Religious Past
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Communication
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/ Langage religieux
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| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
Print version: Hemel, Ernst van den: Words : Religious Language Matters. - New York : Fordham University Press,c2016. - 9780823255566 |
| Résumé: | Examines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Any More Deathless Questions? -- PART I: WHAT ARE WORDS? -- 1.Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion -- 2.Medieval Irish Spells: âWords of Powerâ as Performance -- 3.Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing -- 4.Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body -- 5.Flesh Become Word: Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation -- PART II: RELIGIOUS VOCABULARIES -- 6.Semantic Differences, or âJudaismâ/âChristianityâ -- 7.The Name God in Blanchot -- 8.Humanismâs Cry: On Infinity in Religion and Absence in AtheismâA Conversation with Blanchot and Nancy -- 9.Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion -- 10.Allowed and Forbidden Words: Canon and Censorship in Grundbegriffe, Critical Terms, Encyclopedias: Confessions of a Person Involved -- PART III: TRANSMITTING AND TRANSLATING THE IMPLICIT -- 11.God Lisped: Divine Accommodation and Cracks in Calvinâs Scriptural Voice -- 12.Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in Walter Benjamin -- 13.What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love -- 14.Givenness and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology -- PART IV: SITUATING ONESELF VIA LANGUAGE -- 15.Prayer: Addressing the Name -- 16.A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel -- 17.Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 18.The Rise of Literal-Mindedness -- 19.From Star Wars to Jediism: Th eEmergence of Fiction-based Religion -- 20.The Words of the Martyr: Media, Martyrdom, and the Construction of a Community -- PART V: RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE AND NATIONALISM -- 21.Militant Religiopolitical Rhetoric: How Abraham Kuyper Mobilized His Constituency 22.Thinking through Religious Nationalism -- Notes -- List of Contributors |
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| ISBN: | 0823255581 |