Semiotics of Religion - (Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics) by Robert Yelle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Integrates structural and historical perspectives on the semiotics of religion and gives an account of the distinctive features of religious language and symbolism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Following the heyday of Lévi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. <i>Semiotics of Religion</i> 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: <br/><br/>- ritual repetition and the poetics of ritual performance<br/>- magic and the belief in a natural (iconic) language<br/>- Protestant literalism and iconoclasm<br/>- disenchantment and secularization<br/>- Holiness, arbitrariness, and agency<br/><br/><br/>Building from the legacy of structuralism while interrogating several key doctrines of that movement, <i>Semiotics of Religion</i> both introduces the field to a new generation and charts a course for future research.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A deep and engaging book sure to pique the interests of researchers in both semiotics and religion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty.<br/>CHOICE<br><br>As Robert Yelle compellingly argues in his compact, meaty monograph, a semiotic approach to religion (magic, ritual, myth) requires attention to both semiotic form and semiotic ideology - the poetics of rhyme and repetition, but equally the underlying nominalist ideology that naming invokes the ghost ... [T]he cogent ways in which he pulls together countless familiar piecemeal insights and well-known cases and debates in the anthropology of religion make his book worthwhile reading for linguistic anthropologists ... In sum, this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work provides a compelling argument for the tools of our trade by someone firmly situated in a different discipline.<br/>Linguistic Anthropology<br><br>This important work takes up the almost forgotten task of advancing the study of religion to a place of deeper comprehension in which the tasks of comparison and broad categorical analysis are possible. The means of advance, as the title indicates, is semiotics ... [T]his [is a] carefully plotted argument, making <i>Semiotics of Religion</i> a highly recommended work of theory and method.<br/>Religious Studies Review<br>
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