Sign, Method and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110694727 ISBN 13 : 9783110694727

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2021

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110694727
• ISBN 13: 9783110694727
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Éditeur: Van Boom Jason Cronbach, Põder Thomas-Andreas
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