TY - BOOK AU - Yelle,Robert A. TI - Semiotics of religion: signs of the sacred in history T2 - Advances in semiotics SN - 9781441142825 (hbk.) PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Continuum International Pub. Group KW - Semiotics KW - History KW - Religion KW - Religious aspects KW - Structuralism (literary analysis) KW - Representation (Philosophy) N1 - 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 ER -