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Author : Ronald E. Santoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X000026991
Author : Peter Donovan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106000135043
Author : Olli-Pekka Vainio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108687393
What does it mean to use language religiously? How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices? Can religious language have meaning? Among others, these questions are part of the so-called problem of religious language, which originates from the peculiar object of many religious claims, that is, the transcendent, or more precisely, God.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015006561412
Author : Adnan Aslan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136110023
The philosophy of religion and theology are related to the culture in which they have developed. These disciplines provide a source of values and vision to the cultures of which they are part, while at the same time they are delimited and defined by their cultures. This book compares the ideas of two contemporary philosophers, John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on the issues of religion, religions, the concept of the ultimate reality, and the notion of sacred knowledge. On a broader level, it compares two world-views: the one formed by Western Christian culture, which is religious in intention but secular in essence; the other Islamic, formed through the assimilation of traditional wisdom, which is turned against the norms of secular culture and is thus religious both in intention and essence.
Author : Ernst van den Hemel,Asja Szafraniec
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823255580
It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity. The contributions in the volume develop the insight that our implicit assumptions about what language does guide the way we understand and experience religious phenomena. They also explore the possibility that insights about the particular status of religious utterances may in turn influence the way we think about words in our language.
Author : Paul Chilton,Monika Kopytowska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190636654
What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to use language. This volume brings together research from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from religious studies, to understand the phenomena of religion as a distinctly human enterprise. The book is divided into three parts, each part preceded by a full introductory chapter by the editors that discusses modern scientific approaches to religion and the application of modern linguistics, particularly cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. Part I surveys the development of modern studies of religious language and the diverse disciplinary strands that have emerged. Beginning with descriptive approaches to religious language and the problem of describing religious concepts across languages, chapters introduce the turn to cognition in linguistics and also in theology, and explore the brain's contrasting capacities, in particular its capacity for language and metaphor. Part II continues the discussion of metaphor - the natural ability by which humans draw on basic knowledge of the world in order to explore abstractions and intangibles. Specialists in particular religions apply conceptual metaphor theory in various ways, covering several major religious traditions-Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. Part III seeks to open up new horizons for cognitive-linguistic research on religion, looking beyond written texts to the ways in which language is integrated with other modalities, including ritual, religious art, and religious electronic media. Chapters in Part III introduce readers to a range of technical instruments that have been developed within cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis in recent years. What unfolds ultimately is the idea that the embodied cognition of humans is the basis not only of their languages, but also of their religions.
Author : Margaret Lewis Furse,Sueo Oshima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127202146
Author : Biderman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004378919
At the core of Scripture and Knowledge lies the problem of the nature of religious knowledge. The author argues that religion is a particular framework rather than a particular content or defined set of performances. He sees this framework as epistemological, that is, as one that furnishes believers with a conception of knowledge alternative to that of philosophical reasoning. The thesis on the epistemological nature of religion will be developed by the examination of the concept of scripture as a body of authoritative and even infallible texts. The concept of scripture is presented as one of the constitutive concepts of the epistemological framework of religion. The author argues that the various scriptures and their commentaries should be understood as the arena within which the epistemological process of religion takes place and the central epistemological means by which religious knowledge is made possible.
Author : Terence Penelhum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Evidence
ISBN : LCCN:73888987
Author : John Hick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725225916
In this revision of his widely read study, John Hick has taken advantage of constructive comments on the first edition to make the book more useful. New material has been added and the overall structure of the volume has been changed to strengthen it both as an introduction to the problem of religious knowledge and as an exposition of the view of faith that seems to him most adequate. There is a new chapter on the Thomist-Catholic view of faith; a new treatment of the controversial notion of eschatological verification, taking account of various published critiques of the concept; and a new section on the way in which the Christian faith-awareness of God expresses itself in a distinctive way of life.
Author : James Franklin Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401707190
When Gene Long, editor of Kluwer's Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion Series, first invited me to write the volume on Analytic Philosophy of Religion, I accepted with great enthusiasm. My only explanation for that enthusiasm now is that I was younger and more naive at the time. Soon after starting work on the volume, my enthusiasm was dampened by the daunting magnitude of the task. I began as a sprinter and quickly settled into the pace of a long-distance runner. Although I considered myself well read in the subject, I soon discovered that I had a great deal of research to do to be confident that I had considered all of the major contributions to the various discussions, issues, and of religion. As I read more and more problems found within analytic philosophy books and articles, I realized that I had rushed into a territory already well trodden by the angels. I am greatly impressed by the sophistication and subtlety of philosophical argument that characterize the different debates in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. This volume covers a vast amount of material. I have endeavored to provide the fairest possible reading of different authors, and, in cases where I include my own critical evaluations and develop my own positions, I have endeavored to provide the strongest possible interpretations of the positions I criticize.
Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0877843430
C. Stephen Evans examines the central themes of philosophy of religion, including the arguments for God's existence, the meaning of revelation and miracles, and the problem of religious language.
Author : Humphrey Tonkin,Allison Armstrong Keef
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4953297
This is a collection of papers on the role of language in the structure of religious belief and on the function of language in the practices of different religions or faiths, with attention also to language as a factor in the organization of religious movements and in communication among members of the same religion. The study links theory and practiceóit includes some contributions from theologians but it is also concerned with the practical implications of language in religion. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion and linguistics. Contents: Introduction: Language and CultureóA Perspective; Explorations into Linguistic Practice as a Source of Religious Polarities or The Inevitability of Ineffability; The Meaning and Justification of Religious Propositions; Inclusive Language: Form or Substance; Mysticism and the Limits of Language; Mythic and Symbolic Verbal Structures and Literal Meaning in Literature; Fides Quaerens Verbum Hodiernum: Alternative Creeds and Speech Acts; The Bah- i Faith and Universal Language; Esperanto in the Service of Religion; and Prepare, Pray, Practice and Proclaim: Church Lectors and the Inculcation of Linguistic Practice. Co-published with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems.
Author : John A. Grimes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438405025
Religious discourse uses ordinary language in an extraordinary way. This book surveys Western and Indian discussions of the nature and aspects of religious discourse. It presents the first cross-cultural elucidation of Advaita Vedānta Implications as religious discourse.