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Semiotics of Religion - Signs of the Sacred in History (Hardcover): Robert A. Yelle

Semiotics of Religion - Signs of the Sacred in History (Hardcover)

Robert A. Yelle

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

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Following the heyday of Levi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics of Religion reassesses key semiotic theories in the light of religious data. Yelle examines the semiotics of religion from structural and historical perspectives, drawing on Peircean linguistic anthropology, Jakobsonian poetics, comparative religion and several theological traditions. This book pays particular attention to the transformation of religious symbolism under modernization and the rise of a culture of the printed book. Among the topics addressed are: - ritual repetition and the poetics of ritual performance - magic and the belief in a natural (iconic) language - Protestant literalism and iconoclasm - disenchantment and secularization - Holiness, arbitrariness, and agency Building from the legacy of structuralism while interrogating several key doctrines of that movement, Semiotics of Religion both introduces the field to a new generation and charts a course for future research.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Release date: November 2012
First published: December 2012
Authors: Robert A. Yelle
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-4282-5
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology
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LSN: 1-4411-4282-7
Barcode: 9781441142825

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