Semiotics of religion Signs of the sacred in history 1st Edition by Robert 9781441167651 144116765X

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• Author:  Robert

Semiotics of Religion
Signs of the Sacred in History

Table contents:

1 Semiotics beyond structuralism
Why a semiotics of religion?
A brief critical survey of some semiotic theories of religion
Semiotic recognition
Bringing history to the semiotics of religion
Outline of chapters
2 The poetics of ritual performance
Toward a theory of poetic performance
The rhetoric of spells
The principles of spell-construction
The function of spells
The production of certainty: analogical punishments and trials by ordeal
Chiasmus and communication
Repetition, chiasmus, and salvation
The reality of magic
The question of deception: Pavlov’s dogs and dirty dancing
Excursus: encounter with a fakir
3 Natural, arbitrary, and divine languages
The naturalization of arbitrariness
“The tyranny of taxonomies”
“I pooh-pooh the purity”: etymologies in Hindu and British traditions
“Natural language[s] of the hand”: gesture and the question of arbitrariness
John Bulwer’s Chirologia and Chironomia
Hindu dance: gesture in the Natyasastra
Mudras in Hindu Tantra
4 Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular
Literalism: what is old and what new?
Iconoclasm and literalism
Statutes versus statues: Bentham’s attack on the idols of language
Semiotics and the question of the secular
5 Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of Protestant literalism and print culture
The repudiation of ritual: attacks on ritual repetition and poetic performance
The literacy hypothesis
“To have and to hold”
The literacy hypothesis revisited
6 Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas’s structuralist idea of the Holy
Deist semiotics and the attack on revelation
The dietary laws revisited
Conclusion
Religion and communication
Arbitrariness and certainty
From pragmatics to semantics, and back again
Reason, autonomy, and the critique of the sign
Last words
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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