PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION Religion as a Cognitive and Linguistic Phenomenon
Paul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska
PART I RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE, MIND AND BRAIN
CHAPTER 1 Whatever Happened to Theolinguistics?
David Crystal
CHAPTER 2 Speaking about God in Universal Words, Thinking about
God
outside English
Anna Wierzbicka
CHAPTER 3 Religious Metaphors at the Crossroads between
Apophatical
Theology and Cognitive Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Study
Kurt Feyaerts and Lieven Boeve
CHAPTER 4 Linguistics and the Scientific Study of Religion: Prayer
as a
Cognitive Register
William Downes
CHAPTER 5 Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Language: A
Working
Hypothesis
Patrick McNamara and Magda Giordano
CHAPTER 6 God, Metaphor and the Language of the Hemispheres
Iain McGilchrist
PART II INVESTIGATING METAPHOR IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS
CHAPTER 7 A Composite Countenance: The Divine Face as Mixed
Metaphor
in Jewish Mysticism
Ellen Haskell
CHAPTER 8 The Guru's Tongue: Metaphor, Imagery, and Vernacular
Language in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Hindu Traditions
Glen Alexander Hayes
CHAPTER 9 Snakes, Leaves and Poisoned Arrows:
Metaphors of Emotion in Early Buddhism
Hubert Kowalewski
CHAPTER 10 Buddhist Metaphors in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart
Sutra: A Cognitive Perspective
Xiuping Gao and Chun Lan
CHAPTER 11 The Muslim Prophetic Tradition: Spatial Source Domains
for
Metaphorical Expressions
Ahmad El-Sharif
CHAPTER 12 Metaphor in Religious Transformation: 'Circumcision of
the Heart' in Paul of Tarsus
Ralph Bisschops
PART III NEW PERSPECTIVES
CHAPTER 13 Cognitive Pragmatics and Multi-layered Communication:
Allegory in Christian Religious Discourse
Christoph Unger
CHAPTER 14 Metaphor and Metonymy in Language and Art: the Dogma of
the Holy Trinity and its Artistic Representation
Antonio Barcelona
CHAPTER 15 Waging a War against Oneself: a Conceptual Blend at the
Heart of Christian Ascetic Practice
Mihailo Antovi?
CHAPTER 16 Hoc est corpus: Deixis and the Integration of Ritual
Space
Paul Chilton and David Cram
CHAPTER 17 The Televisualization of Ritual: Spirituality,
Spatiality
and Co-presence in Religious Broadcasting
Monika Kopytowska
Paul Chilton received his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
His research and writing have spanned several fields, including
linguistics, discourse analysis, politics, international relations,
and religious literature. He has worked in several universities,
including Warwick, Lancaster, and Stanford, and has also lectured
widely in China. His current research is in cognitive linguistics,
discourse analysis, and their links with neuroscience.
Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz,
Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of
Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around the interface of
language and cognition, identity, media discourse and the
pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of
religion, ethnicity, and conflict/terrorism. She is co-editor of
and contributor to Languages, Cultures, Media (2016) and Why
Discourse matters:
Negotiating Identity in the Mediatized World (2014),
editor-in-chief of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, and associate editor
of Moral Cognition and Communication.
"This is a book highly recommended to researchers from various
disciplinary backgrounds, theologians and priests but also lay
people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Most
chapters can be consid-ered independently. But in any case, do not
miss the splendid and informative introduction and overview." --
Pn. Dr. Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann, ESSSAT News & Reviews
"Religion, Language, and the Human Mind is a superb snapshot about
what is going on in cognitive linguistics, religious studies,
neuroscience, and everything in between. Readers will find
something to their liking either for the enjoyment of learning,
being intellectually challenged, or for the refinement of their own
discipline. Highly recommended." -- Reading Religion
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