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.