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Words : Religious Language Matters.
Examines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Future of the religious past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Any More Deathless Questions?; Part I: What Are Words?; 1. Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion; 2. Medieval Irish Spells: "Words of Power" as Performance; 3. Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing; 4. Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body; 5. Flesh Become Word: Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation; Part II: Religious Vocabularies; 6. Semantic Differences, or "Judaism"/"Christianity."
- 7. The Name God in Blanchot8. Humanism's Cry: On Infinity in Religion and Absence in Atheism-A Conversation with Blanchot and Nancy; 9. Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion; 10. Allowed and Forbidden Words: Canon and Censorship in Grundbegriffe, Critical Terms, Encyclopedias: Confessions of a Person Involved; Part III: Transmitting and Translating the Implicit; 11. God Lisped: Divine Accommodation and Cracks in Calvin's Scriptural Voice; 12. Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in Walter Benjamin.
- 13. What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love14. Givenness and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology; Part IV: Situating Oneself Via Language; 15. Prayer: Addressing the Name; 16. A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel; 17. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics; 18. The Rise of Literal-Mindedness; 19. From Star Wars to Jediism: The Emergence of Fiction-based Religion; 20. The Words of the Martyr: Media, Martyrdom, and the Construction of a Community; Part V: Religious Language and Nationalism.
- 21. Militant Religiopolitical Rhetoric: How Abraham Kuyper Mobilized His Constituency22. Thinking through Religious Nationalism; Notes; List of Contributors.