Semiotics of religion
Subtitle: signs of the sacred in history
By: Robert A. Yelle
Series: Advances in semiotics
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781441142825; 9781441104199; 9781441167651; 9781441172372
Subjects: Religion; Semiotics; Representation (Philosophy); Religious aspects; Structuralism (Literary analysis); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Semiotics beyond structuralism; title: The poetics of ritual performance; title: natural, arbitrary, and divine languages; title: Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular; title: Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of protestant literalism and print culture; title: Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas' structuralist idea of the holy.