Religions and Discourse
«Religions and Discourse» explores religious language in the major world faiths from various viewpoints, including semiotics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, and reflects on how it is situated within wider intellectual and cultural contexts. In particular a key issue is the role of figurative speech. Many fascinating metaphors originate in religion e.g. revelation as a ‘garment’, apostasy as ‘adultery’, loving kindness as the ‘circumcision of the heart’. Every religion rests its specific orientations upon symbols such as these, to name but a few. The series strives after the interdisciplinary approach that brings together such diverse disciplines as religious studies, theology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics and literature, guided by an international editorial board of scholars representative of the aforementioned disciplines. Though scholarly in its scope, the series also seeks to facilitate discussions pertaining to central religious issues in contemporary contexts. The series will publish monographs and collected essays of a high scholarly standard.
Titles
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Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam
Politicizing the past in Medieval Islamic HistoriographyVolume 62©2019 Monographs 284 Pages -
Telling Hands and Teaching Feet
Nonverbal Communication in Two of the Narratives of ActsVolume 61©2019 Monographs 390 Pages -
The Church as Hermeneutical Community and the Place of Embodied Faith in Joseph Ratzinger and Lewis S. Mudge
Volume 58©2015 Monographs 512 Pages -
The Incurious Seeker’s Quest for Meaning
Heidegger, Mood and ChristianityVolume 57©2014 Monographs 259 Pages -
Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion and Conflict
Studying Muslim–Christian RelationsVolume 55©2013 Monographs 226 Pages -
Introducing Ordinary African Readers’ Hermeneutics
A Case Study of the Agĩkũyũ Encounter with the BibleVolume 54©2011 Monographs 371 Pages