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Ritual and Semiotics

Author : J. Ralph Lindgren
Publisher : Critic of Institutions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Semiotics written by J. Ralph Lindgren and published by Critic of Institutions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten essays breaking out of a cognitivist vocabulary to analyze signs and systems within an approach that emphasizes process, practice, and ritual over ideology. The discussions explore these system in the context of legal institutions, documenting how signs and rituals form, interact, reinforce, transform and interpret one another in judicial ritual, as part of the Italian communist party struggle, in the context of the body and in religion, and in Dutch political culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Semiotics of Religion

Author : Robert Yelle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441104194
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Religion written by Robert Yelle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates structural and historical perspectives on the semiotics of religion and gives an account of the distinctive features of religious language and symbolism.

Semiotics of Religion

Author : Robert A. Yelle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441172378
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Religion written by Robert A. Yelle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the heyday of Lévi-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.

Sign, Method and the Sacred

Author : Jason Cronbach Van Boom
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110694921
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Sign, Method and the Sacred written by Jason Cronbach Van Boom and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology? The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors. The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

Mediation and Immediacy

Author : Jenny Ponzo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110690349
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Mediation and Immediacy written by Jenny Ponzo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to the divine, or to some transcendent dimension of experience, such promises depend for their realization as well on the possibility of mediation, which is necessarily conducted through channels of communication and exchange, such as prayers or sacrifices. An understanding of such modes of semiosis is therefore necessary even and especially when mediation is denied by a tradition in the name of the 'ineffability" of the deity or of mystical experience. This volume models and promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by asking prominent semioticians, historians of religion and of art, linguists, sociologists of religion, and philosophers of law to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the topic of mediation and immediacy in religious traditions.

Cultic and Further Orders: Semiotics of a Kabbalistic Culture

Author : Maurizio Mottolese
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499008
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Cultic and Further Orders: Semiotics of a Kabbalistic Culture written by Maurizio Mottolese and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an unusual investigation of kabbalistic commentaries on prayer and ritual from the viewpoint of cultural semiotics, this book attempts to illuminate the features of a lasting Jewish tradition, showing in particular the relevance of ordering structures in Sephardi Kabbalah.

The Forms of Meaning

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110816148
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Forms of Meaning written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics has had a profound impact on our comprehension of a wide range of phenomena, from how animals signify and communicate, to how people read TV commercials. This series features books on semiotic theory and applications of that theory to understanding media, language, and related subjects. The series publishes scholarly monographs of wide appeal to students and interested non-specialists as well as scholars. AAS is a peer-reviewed series of international scope.

Semiotics and Communication

Author : Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0805811397
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and Communication written by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is, among other things, about the study of meaning -- how people convey ideas for themselves and to one another in their daily lives. Designed to close the gap between what we are able to do as social actors and what we are able to describe as social analysts, this book introduces the language of semiotics -- a language that provides some of the words necessary for discussion of these communication issues. Presenting the basics of semiotic theory to communication scholars, this volume summarizes those aspects most relevant to the study of social interaction, in particular, signs (the smallest elements of meaning in interaction) and codes (sets of related signs and rules for their use) -- explaining how they come together within cultures. Three common social codes -- food, clothing, and objects -- serve as primary examples throughout the book.

Ritual and Covenant

Author : Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Covenant written by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theorizing Rituals

Author : Jens Kreinath
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004153438
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Rituals written by Jens Kreinath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays that are considered most relevant for the field of ritual theory. Instead of proposing yet another theory of ritual, the bibliography is a comprehensive monument documenting four decades of theorizing rituals.

The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning

Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472525086
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning written by Paul Bouissac and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costumes through which the clowns' performing identities have been established and go on developing. It also examines what Bouissac terms 'micronarratives' - narrative meanings that clowns generate through their acts, dialogues and gestures. Putting a repertory of clown performances under the semiotic microscope leads to the conclusion that the performances are all interconnected and come from what might be termed a 'mythical matrix'. These micronarratives replicate in context-sensitive forms a master narrative whose general theme refers to the emergence of cultures and constraints that they place upon instinctual behaviour. From this vantage point, each performance can be considered as a ritual which re-enacts the primitive violence inherent in all cultures and the temporary resolutions which must be negotiated as the outcome. Why do these acts of transgression and re-integration then trigger laughter and wonder? What kind of mirror does this put up to society? In a masterful semiotic analysis, Bouissac delves into decades of research to answer these questions.

Ritual and Deference

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478211
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Deference written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.

Wedding as Text

Author : Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135694206
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Wedding as Text written by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-18 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage; if a couple is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship, they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings of 112 couples from across the United States, studied over a 10-year period. She focuses on intercultural weddings--interracial, interethnic, interfaith, international, and interclass--looking at how real people are coping with cultural differences in their lives. Through detailed case studies, the book explores how couples display different identities simultaneously. The concepts of community, ritual, identity, and meaning are given extensive consideration. Because material culture plays a particularly important role in weddings as in other examples of ritual, food, clothing, and objects are given special attention here. Focusing on how couples design a wedding ritual to simultaneously meet multiple--and different--requirements, this book provides: *extensive details of actual behavior by couples; *an innovative format: six traditional theoretical chapters, with examples integrated into the discussion, are matched to six "interludes" providing detailed descriptions of the most successful examples of resolving intercultural differences; *a methodological appendix detailing what was done and why these decisions were made; and *a theoretical appendix outlining the study's assumptions in detail. Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual is a distinctive study of those who have accepted cultural difference into their daily lives and how they have managed to do so successfully. As such, it is suitable for students and scholars in semiotics, intercultural communication, ritual, material culture, family communication, and family studies, and will be valuable reading for anyone facing the issue of cultural difference.

Semiotics of Religion

Author : Robert A. Yelle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144116765X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Religion written by Robert A. Yelle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the heyday of Lévi-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.

Semiotics of Culture

Author : Irene Portis Winner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110823136
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Culture written by Irene Portis Winner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Semiotics of Culture".

By Means of Performance

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583309
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book By Means of Performance written by Richard Schechner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies.

Handbook of Semiotics

Author : Winfried Noth
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209597
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Semiotics written by Winfried Noth and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-22 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- Sign and Meaning -- Semiotics, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Language and Language-Based Codes -- From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Text Semiotics: The Field -- Nonverbal Communication -- Aesthetics and Visual Communication.