Sign, Method and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion (Religion and Reason, 64) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110694727 ISBN 13: 9783110694727

Verlag: De Gruyter, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology?

The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors.

The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jason C. Van Boom, Universität Irkutsk, Russland und Thomas-Andreas Põder, Universität Tartu, Estland.

Jason C. Van Boom, Irkutsk State University, Russia and Thomas-Andreas Põder, University of Tartu, Estonia.

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This book provides a wide ranging overview of contemporary applications of semiotic methodologies to the study of religion. Contributors representing a variety of disciplines (such as religious studies, theology, philosophy, anthropology and communications) explore both theory and application in their discussion of multiple aspects of religion. This collection is useful for both graduate level survey courses and advanced research

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3110694727
• ISBN 13: 9783110694727
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
• Herausgeber: Van Boom Jason Cronbach, Põder Thomas-Andreas
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