Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History (Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics)

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. Robert A. Yelle. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.