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Semiotics of religion : signs of the sacred in history /

Following the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. <i>Semiotics of Religion</i> reassesses key semiotic theories in the light of religious data. Yelle examines the semiotics of religion from struct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yelle, Robert A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012.
Colección:Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Semiotics beyond structuralism
  • The poetics of ritual performance
  • natural, arbitrary, and divine languages
  • Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular
  • Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of protestant literalism and print culture
  • Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas' structuralist idea of the holy.