Analysing Religious Discourse
Published on 30. June 2021
374 pages
978-1-108-87583-7 (ISBN)
Description
Language plays a key role in religion, framing how people describe spiritual experience and giving structure to religious beliefs and practices. Bringing together work from a team of world-renowned scholars, this volume introduces contemporary research on religious discourse from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It introduces methods for analysis of a range of different kinds of text and talk, including institutional discourse within organised religions, discourse around spirituality and spiritual experience within religious communities, media discourse about the role of religion and spirituality in society, translations of sacred texts, political discourse, and ritual language. Engaging and easy-to-read, it is accessible to researchers across linguistics, religious studies, and other related disciplines. A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, it will become a key resource in the emerging inter-disciplinary field of language and religion.
Reviews / Votes
'... the volume can be recommended to more advanced discourse analysts and scholars from other fields who wish to engage in critical dialogue with language-based approaches to the study of religion ... As a book about religion, [this study] is a rich resource for anyone curious about various perspectives on the role of faith and spirituality for the present-day human condition.' Eva Triebl, Language in SocietyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
File size
3,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-87583-7 (9781108875837)
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Content
1. Analysing religion discourse: introduction Stephen Pihlaja; 2. Interaction Shawn Warner; 3. Ethnography Vally Lytra; 4. Narrative Zayneb E. S. Al-Bundawi; 5. Multimodality Sarah Turner; 6. Rhetoric Beau Pihlaja; 7. Translation Philip Wilson; 8. Institutions Kate Power; 9. Media Stephen Pihlaja; 10. Community Andrey Rosowsky; 11. Education Xin Gao and Juliet Thondhlana; 12. Inter-religious dialogue Alain Wolf; 13. Rituals Wei-lun Lu and Svitlana Shurma; 14. Metaphor Aletta G. Dorst; 15. Emotion Francesco De Toni; 16. Identity Helen Ringrow; 17. Cognition Peter Richardson; 18. Sacred texts Karolien Vermeulen; 19. Ecology Mariana Roccia; 20. Conclusion David Crystal.
