{"product_id":"words-9780823255559","title":"Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The conversation about the modern, the religious, and the secular is not over, and this volume will push the dialogue in fruitful new directions.\" -- -S. Brent Plate Hamilton College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 'Any more deathless questions?', Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel        Part 1: What are words?        'Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion', Michael Lambek       'The power of words and the performative context', Jacqueline Borsje       'Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing', Jan Assmann       'Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body', Loriliai Biernacki       Part 2 Religious Vocabularies:       'Semantic Differences; or, \"Judaism\"; \"Christianity\"', Daniel Boyarin      'The Name God in Blanchot', Jean-Luc Nancy      'Humanism's Cry: On Infinity in Religion, and Absence in Atheism-A Dialogue with Blanchot and Nancy', Laurens ten Kate      'Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion', Nils F. Schott      'Allowed and forbidden words: Canon and Censorship in \"Grunbegriffe\", \"Critical terms\", Encyclopaedias', Christoph Auffarth       Part 3: Transmitting and Translating the Implicit      'God lisped: divine accommodation and cracks in Calvin's Scriptural voice', Ernst Van den Hemel      'Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in W.Benjamin', Sergey Dolgopolski      'What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love', Jean-Luc Marion      'Jean-Luc Marion and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology', Tarek Dika       Part 4:  Situating Oneself via Language      'A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel', Asja Szafraniec      'Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics', Talal Asad      'The Rise of Literal-Mindedness', Peter Burke      'Fiction-based Religion: From Star Wars to Jediism', Markus Altena Davidsen       'Prayer: Addressing the Name', Karmen Mackendrick       Part 5 Language and the Foundation of Communities      'The Words of the Martyr. Media, Martyrdom and the Construction of a Community', Pieter Nanninga      \"Spritual X-ray Vision\": the Religio-Political Rhetoric of Abraham Kuyper', Arie L. Molendijk      'Thinking through Religious Nationalism', Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406137041239,"sku":"9780823255559","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823255559.jpg?v=1730494652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/words-9780823255559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}