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Semiotics of Religion
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 …
Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization
What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber’s historical idea of disenchantment and to develop …
Explaining Mantras
Explaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra. The author reveals how mantras work in light of both the …
Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization
What does it really mean to be modern?The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop …
Mediation and Immediacy
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 …
The Language of Disenchantment
The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language influenced British colonial attitudes toward Hinduism and proposals for the reform of that tradition. …
Semiotics of Religion
Following the heyday of L vi-Straussian structuralism in the 1970s-80s, little attention has been paid by scholars of religion to semiotics. Semiotics of Religion reassesses key …
Language of Disenchantment
The Language of Disenchantment explores the ways in which Protestant ideas concerning language influenced British colonial attitudes toward and proposals to reform Hinduism. …
Sovereignty and the Sacred
Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the …
Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence
In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars uses history, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics to approach Transcendence as a human phenomenon, and shows the …
Explaining Mantras
Explaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra. Drawing upon linguistics, semiotics, anthropology and …