Yelle, Robert A.

Semiotics of religion : signs of the sacred in history / Robert A. Yelle. - New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2013. - xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Advances in semiotics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Semiotics beyond structuralism -- The poetics of ritual performance -- natural, arbitrary, and divine languages -- Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular -- Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of protestant literalism and print culture -- Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas' structuralist idea of the holy.

9781441142825 (hbk.) RM389.55


Semiotics--History.
Religion--History.
Semiotics--Religious aspects.
Structuralism (literary analysis).
Representation (Philosophy).