Words: Religious Language Matters

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

Words

Religious Language Matters

Edited by: Ernst van den Hemel and Asja Szafraniec

In the series The Future of the Religious Past

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255580

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Examines 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.

Author / Editor information

Hemel Ernst van den :

Ernst van den Hemel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Humanities of Universiteit Utrecht. He completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam as part of the project titled the Future of the Religious Past. His current research focuses on the postsecular and national identity. He teaches at the department of Religious Studies, Utrecht University. Van den Hemel is the secretary of the Foresight Committee Theology of Religious Studies of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.Szafraniec Asja :

Asja Szafraniec teaches at Amsterdam University College. She is the author of Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature (Stanford University Press, 2007), and of articles on the relation between continental and ordinary language philosophy, on the question of the specificity of the nature of philosophical discourse, and on the relation between philosophy and various forms of literary experiment. Her current research on the work of Stanley Cavell focuses on contemporary philosophy’s response to the questions of skepticism, faith, and religion.

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—S. Brent Plate:
“The conversation about the modern, the religious, and the secular is not over, and this volume will push the dialogue in fruitful new directions.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Any More Deathless Questions? Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. What Are Words?
CHAPTER 1. Word as Act Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion Michael Lambek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER 2. Medieval Irish Spells “Words of Power” as Performance Jacqueline Borsje Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER 3. Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing A Study of Performative Writing Jan Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
CHAPTER 4. Words and Word-Bodies Writing the Religious Body Loriliai Biernacki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
CHAPTER 5. Flesh Become Word Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation Elliot R. Wolfson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
PART II. Religious Vocabularies
CHAPTER 6. Semantic Differences, or “Judaism”/“Christianity” Daniel Boyarin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
CHAPTER 7. The Name God in Blanchot Jean-Luc Nancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
CHAPTER 8. Humanism’s Cry On Infi nity in Religion and Absence in Atheism— A Conversation with Blanchot and Nancy Laurens ten Kate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER 9. Intuition, Interpellation, Insight Elements of a Theory of Conversion Nils F. Schott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
CHAPTER 10. Allowed and Forbidden Words Canon and Censorship in Grundbegriff e, Critical Terms, and Encyclopedias: Confessions of a Person Involved Christoph Auffarth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
PART III. Transmitting and Translating the Implicit
CHAPTER 11. God Lisped Divine Accommodation and Cracks in Calvin’s Scriptural Voice Ernst van den Hemel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
CHAPTER 12. Rethinking the Implicit Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in Walter Benjamin Sergey Dolgopolski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
CHAPTER 13. What Cannot Be Said Apophasis and the Discourse of Love Jean-Luc Marion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
CHAPTER 14. Givenness and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology Tarek R. Dika Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
PART IV. Situating Oneself via Language
CHAPTER 15. Prayer Addressing the Name Karmen MacKendrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
CHAPTER 16. A Quarrel with God Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel Asja Szafraniec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
CHAPTER 17. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics Talal Asad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
CHAPTER 18. The Rise of Literal-Mindedness Peter Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
CHAPTER 19. From Star Wars to Jediism Th e Emergence of Fiction-based Religion Markus Altena Davidsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
CHAPTER 20. The Words of the Martyr Media, Martyrdom, and the Construction of a Community Pieter Nanninga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
PART V. Religious Language and Nationalism
CHAPTER 21. Militant Religiopolitical Rhetoric How Abraham Kuyper Mobilized His Constituency Arie L. Molendijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
CHAPTER 22. Thinking through Religious Nationalism Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	591

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 614
Keywords: Religion; language; Anthropology

eBook

Published: June 15, 2016
ISBN: 9780823255580