Analysing Religious Discourse

A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, from a variety of linguistic perspectives.

List of contents

1. Analysing religion discourse: introduction Stephen Pihlaja; 2. Interaction Shawn Warner; 3. Ethnography Vally Lytra; 4. Narrative Zayneb E. S. Al-Bundawi; 5. Multimodality Sarah Turner; 6. Rhetoric Beau Pihlaja; 7. Translation Philip Wilson; 8. Institutions Kate Power; 9. Media Stephen Pihlaja; 10. Community Andrey Rosowsky; 11. Education Xin Gao and Juliet Thondhlana; 12. Inter-religious dialogue Alain Wolf; 13. Rituals Wei-lun Lu and Svitlana Shurma; 14. Metaphor Aletta G. Dorst; 15. Emotion Francesco De Toni; 16. Identity Helen Ringrow; 17. Cognition Peter Richardson; 18. Sacred texts Karolien Vermeulen; 19. Ecology Mariana Roccia; 20. Conclusion David Crystal.

About the author

Stephen Pihlaja is the author of three books about Language and Religion including Religious Talk Online (Cambridge, 2018), and Talk about Faith (Cambridge, 2021).

Summary

Analysing Religious Discourse introduces a variety of different approaches to the empirical analysis of religious discourse in a variety of contexts. Comprising chapters that cover broad topics in the field of language and religion, it presents a lively discussion of current research in the analysis of religious discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Pihlaja
• Assisted by: Stephen Pihlaja (Editor), Pihlaja Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108836135
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83613-5
• No. of pages: 349
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Sociology, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Religion: general, Theology