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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Pihlaja Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9781108799386
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79938-6
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sociology, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Religion: general, Theology