The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion

ISBN-13: 9781032293530 / Twarda / 2023 / 472 str.

Opis

 The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion is the first ever comprehensive collection of research on religion and language, with over 35 authors from 15 countries, presenting a range of linguistic and discourse analytic research on religion and belief in different discourse contexts.

Spis treści

Foreword

1. Language and Religion

Part One - Religious & Sacred Language

2. The Learning of Sacred languages
   Sacred Languages and Power
3. Digital Media and the Sacred
4. Metaphors and Gestures in Prayers in Islam
5. Arabic Language and Representations of the Ethnic Other
6. Secular Functions of Religious Expressions
7. Symbols and Icons in Buddhist Worship
8. Religious Language in Literature
9. Language, Religion, and the Digital World 

Part Two - Institutional Discourse

10. Variation of Language in Religious Texts
11. Religion, Literature, and the Secondary Classroom 
12. Religious Greeting Messages as a Genre of Institutional Communication
13. News Media Representations of Religion
14. Pandemic Sermon Rhetoric and Evangelism
15. Language Policies and Religious Practice
16. Politeness in Religious Discourse
17. Religion in the Discourse of Abortion
18. Religious Oratory and Language Online
19. Catholicism and Social Media

Part Three - Religious Identity & Community

20. Religion, Identity, and Second Language
21. Selling English in an Islamic Society
22. Narratives and Religious Identity
23. Jewish Languages and American Jewishness
24. Multilanguaging in Interreligious Encounters
25. Ritual Language, Ritual Community
26. Religious Identity in Discourse
27. Conversion Narratives
28. Cognitive Metaphor and Religion
29. Religious Ritual and Language in the Local Community

Index

O autorze

Stephen Pihlaja lives and teaches in Birmingham (UK). He is the author of several books on talk about religion, including Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief (CUP, 2021). He is interested in how people talk about and understand their own beliefs in diverse contexts.

Helen Ringrow researches gender and religion, particularly in online contexts. She is author of The Language of Cosmetics Advertising (Palgrave, 2016) and co-editor of Contemporary Media Stylistics (Bloomsbury, 2020).