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Words : Religious Language Matters /
"It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are how they exist in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Future of the religious past.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Any more deathless questions? / Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel
- Word as act: varieties of semiotic ideology in the interpretation of religion / Michael Lambek
- Medieval Irish spells: "words of power" as performance / Jacqueline Borsje
- Inscriptional violence and the art of cursing: a study of performative writing / Jan Assmann
- Words and word-bodies: writing the religious body / Loriliai Biernacki
- Flesh become word: textual embodiment and poetic incarnation / Elliot R. Wolfson
- Semantic differences, or "Judaism"/ "Christianity" / Daniel Boyarin
- The name God in Blanchot / Jean-Luc Nancy
- Humanism's cry: on infinity in religion and absence in atheism-- a conversation with Blanchot and Nancy / Laurens ten Kate
- Intuition, interpellation, insight: elements of a theory of conversion / Nils F. Schott
- Allowed and forbidden words: canon and censorship in Grundbegriffe, critical terms, and encyclopedias: confessions of a person involved / Christoph Auffarth
- God lisped: divine accommodation and cracks in Calvin's scriptural voice / Ernst van den Hemel
- Rethinking the implicit: fragments of the project on Aggada and Halakhah in Walter Benjamin / Sergey Dolgopolski
- What cannot be said: apophasis and the discourse of love / Jean-Luc Marion
- Givenness and the basic problems of phenomenology / Tarek R. Dika
- Prayer: addressing the name / Karmen MacKendrick
- A quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel / Asja Szafraniec
- Thinking about the secular body, pain, and liberal politics / Talal Asad
- The rise of literal-mindedness / Peter Burke
- From Star Wars to Jediism: the emergence of fiction-based religion / Markus Altena Davidsen
- The words of the martyr: media, martyrdom, and the construction of a community / Pieter Nanninga
- Militant religiopolitical rhetoric: how Abraham Kuyper mobilized his constituency / Arie L. Molendijk
- Thinking through religious nationalism / Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss.