The Languages Of Religion

Author : Sipra Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429880087

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This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by ‘faith-insiders’ such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator’s role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the ‘sacred’ language with political power. The book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.

Author : Robert Yelle,Courtney Handman,Christopher Lehrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514329

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Language and Religion by Robert Yelle,Courtney Handman,Christopher Lehrich Pdf

This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.

Author : William Downes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139494939

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Language and Religion by William Downes Pdf

Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations, dependent on language to unify diverse capacities of the human mind. It argues that religion is widespread because it is implicit in the way the mind processes the world, as it determines what we ought to do, practically and morally, to achieve our goals. Focusing on the world religions, the book relates modern cognitive theories of language and communication to culture and its dissemination. It explains basic features of religion such as the supernatural, the normative, abstract and ideal theological concepts such as 'God', and religious feeling. It develops a linguistic theory, based on how utterances are understood, of metaphysical and moral 'mysteries' and their key role in thought and action. It shows how such concepts gain strength in the light of their successful use and, when tempered by criticism, can also have genuine authority.

Author : Nile Green,Mary Searle-Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135892876

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Religion, Language, and Power by Nile Green,Mary Searle-Chatterjee Pdf

Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers of power, whether scripturalist or otherwise normative and dominant. This book’s de-centering of English classifications goes beyond the remit of most postcolonial studies in that it explores the classifications used in a range of languages — including Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Greek and English — to achieve a comparative survey of the roles of language and power in the making of ‘religion’ . In contextualizing these uses of language, the ten contributors explore how labels are either imposed or emerge interactively through discursive struggles between dominant and marginal groups. In dealing with the interplay of religion, language and power, there is no other book with the breadth of this volume.

Author : James Ian Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000234818

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The Language of Religion by James Ian Campbell Pdf

Author : Tope Omoniyi,Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227102

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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion by Tope Omoniyi,Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

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Author : Frederic Charles Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Avesta
ISBN : HARVARD:AH659V

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The Origins of Religion and Language by Frederic Charles Cook Pdf

Author : John Myhill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227119

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Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East by John Myhill Pdf

This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively homogeneous spoken languages, e.g. Czech, Norwegian and Ukrainian, have resulted in national liberation and international stability. It is also shown that religion can be more important to national identity than language, but only for religious groups which were understood in premodern times to be national rather than universal or doctrinal, e.g. Jews, Armenians, Maronites, Serbs, Dutch and English; this is demonstrated with discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the civil war in Lebanon and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the United Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Author : Brian P. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136736131

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Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia by Brian P. Bennett Pdf

Church Slavonic, one of the world’s historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture.

Author : Felicity McCutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351904933

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Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone by Felicity McCutcheon Pdf

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers of religion back to Wittgenstein's own criticisms of speculative metaphysics, arguing that in its religious usage the concept of God does not fall under Wittgenstein's anti-metaphysical gaze. In presenting a detailed account of Wittgenstein's own philosophical method, including his criticisms of metaphysics, McCutcheon shows that it is possible to accept Wittgenstein's criticisms of metaphysics whilst retaining the metaphysical content of religious language. This book offers a fresh understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophical method and a new critique of religious discourse for those studying philosophy and religious studies.

Author : Vally Lytra,Dinah Volk,Eve Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317581260

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Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities by Vally Lytra,Dinah Volk,Eve Gregory Pdf

Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and socialization, namely homes, religious education classes, places of worship, and faith-related schools and secular schools. Contributors engage with a diverse set of complex multiethnic and religious communities, and investigate the rich multilingual, multiliterate and multi-scriptal practices associated with religion which children and adolescents engage in with a range of mediators, including siblings, peers, parents, grandparents, religious leaders, and other members of the religious community. The volume is organized into three sections according to context and participants: (1) religious practices at home and across generations, (2) religious education classes and places of worship and (3) bridging home, school and community. The edited book will be a valuable resource for researchers in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, socio-linguistics, intercultural communication, and early years, primary and secondary education.

Author : Peter Richardson,Charles M. Mueller,Stephen Pihlaja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000347920

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Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language by Peter Richardson,Charles M. Mueller,Stephen Pihlaja Pdf

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range of faiths, text types, and modes of interactive discourse, the authors accessibly define concepts like embodied cognition, agency, metaphor analysis, and Dynamic Systems Theory; illustrate how they can be used in analyzing religious language; and offer thorough pedagogical material to aid learning and application. Advanced students and scholars of linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive science, and religious and biblical studies will benefit from this practical guide to understanding and conducting research on religious discourse.

Author : Paul Anthony Chilton,Monika Weronika Kopytowska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190636647

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Religion, Language, and the Human Mind by Paul Anthony Chilton,Monika Weronika Kopytowska Pdf

Religion is a multi-faceted and complex human phenomenon, combining many different mental and social characteristics. Among these, language plays a crucial though often neglected role. This volume brings together groundbreaking work from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from religious studies, in order to illuminate the origins and centrality of religion in human life.

Author : Vally Lytra,Dinah Volk,Eve Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317581277

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Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities by Vally Lytra,Dinah Volk,Eve Gregory Pdf

Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and socialization, namely homes, religious education classes, places of worship, and faith-related schools and secular schools. Contributors engage with a diverse set of complex multiethnic and religious communities, and investigate the rich multilingual, multiliterate and multi-scriptal practices associated with religion which children and adolescents engage in with a range of mediators, including siblings, peers, parents, grandparents, religious leaders, and other members of the religious community. The volume is organized into three sections according to context and participants: (1) religious practices at home and across generations, (2) religious education classes and places of worship and (3) bridging home, school and community. The edited book will be a valuable resource for researchers in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, socio-linguistics, intercultural communication, and early years, primary and secondary education.

Author : Peter Donovan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106000135043

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Religious Language by Peter Donovan Pdf