Feminist studies, post-colonialism, and post-structuralism have been transforming the humanities.... more Feminist studies, post-colonialism, and post-structuralism have been transforming the humanities. The tension in each between theory and praxis has in many cases been creative. Some of the new writing has tended towards the jargon-ridden and obscurantist, obfuscating rather than illuminating.
This essay engages the work of Robert Yelle in his text Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacre... more This essay engages the work of Robert Yelle in his text Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History. The author examines in particular his theorizing of the indexical sign function and its capacity to ‘enflesh’ the symbol. In the Peircean and Saussurean frames the symbol is an abstraction, a concept, and removed from the experiential. However, with the deployment of the indexical sign, as Yelle argues, the symbol is enfleshed and made experiential. Yelle's development of Peircean semiotics should prove to be very productive in the study of systems of belief and practice.
Page 1. Political Bodies/Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender September 08, 2010 By Darlene Jusc... more Page 1. Political Bodies/Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender September 08, 2010 By Darlene Juschka From: Z Net - The Spirit Of Resistance Lives ...
Page 1. JCRT 5.1 DECEMBER 2003 84 DARLENE M. JUSCHKA University of Regina THE WRITING OF ETHNOGRA... more Page 1. JCRT 5.1 DECEMBER 2003 84 DARLENE M. JUSCHKA University of Regina THE WRITING OF ETHNOGRAPHY: MAGICAL REALISM AND MICHAEL TAUSSIG1 Language is not a medium; it is a constitutive element ...
The articles included in this special issue on feminisms and the study of systems of belief and p... more The articles included in this special issue on feminisms and the study of systems of belief and practice are arranged in three large sections that speak to the general orientation of the papers within the section. [...]
Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century apprentice mystic and religious zealot, went on pilgrimage to ... more Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century apprentice mystic and religious zealot, went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem about 1413. Along the way, she endured a difficult and dangerous journey and the extreme animosity of the pilgrimage group with whom she shared fellowship. She was the only woman, aside from her maid, amongst them, and they, in their anger over her constant sermonizing, abandoned her several times, leaving her to find a new protector and guide so that she could continue her journey. Not only did they abandon her, but they also publicly humiliated her and took a significant amount of her money and her maid. Margery Kempe had been marginalized by this group of men, a priest amongst them, and put in her place (Collis 55-62). She was subjected to this kind of brutality because she was a woman who spoke out of turn when she dared to reprimand her male companions for what she considered to be wanton and frivolous behaviour while on pilgrimage to those holy places where the lord was q...
Feminist studies, post-colonialism, and post-structuralism have been transforming the humanities.... more Feminist studies, post-colonialism, and post-structuralism have been transforming the humanities. The tension in each between theory and praxis has in many cases been creative. Some of the new writing has tended towards the jargon-ridden and obscurantist, obfuscating rather than illuminating.
This essay engages the work of Robert Yelle in his text Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacre... more This essay engages the work of Robert Yelle in his text Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History. The author examines in particular his theorizing of the indexical sign function and its capacity to ‘enflesh’ the symbol. In the Peircean and Saussurean frames the symbol is an abstraction, a concept, and removed from the experiential. However, with the deployment of the indexical sign, as Yelle argues, the symbol is enfleshed and made experiential. Yelle's development of Peircean semiotics should prove to be very productive in the study of systems of belief and practice.
Page 1. Political Bodies/Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender September 08, 2010 By Darlene Jusc... more Page 1. Political Bodies/Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender September 08, 2010 By Darlene Juschka From: Z Net - The Spirit Of Resistance Lives ...
Page 1. JCRT 5.1 DECEMBER 2003 84 DARLENE M. JUSCHKA University of Regina THE WRITING OF ETHNOGRA... more Page 1. JCRT 5.1 DECEMBER 2003 84 DARLENE M. JUSCHKA University of Regina THE WRITING OF ETHNOGRAPHY: MAGICAL REALISM AND MICHAEL TAUSSIG1 Language is not a medium; it is a constitutive element ...
The articles included in this special issue on feminisms and the study of systems of belief and p... more The articles included in this special issue on feminisms and the study of systems of belief and practice are arranged in three large sections that speak to the general orientation of the papers within the section. [...]
Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century apprentice mystic and religious zealot, went on pilgrimage to ... more Margery Kempe, a fifteenth-century apprentice mystic and religious zealot, went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem about 1413. Along the way, she endured a difficult and dangerous journey and the extreme animosity of the pilgrimage group with whom she shared fellowship. She was the only woman, aside from her maid, amongst them, and they, in their anger over her constant sermonizing, abandoned her several times, leaving her to find a new protector and guide so that she could continue her journey. Not only did they abandon her, but they also publicly humiliated her and took a significant amount of her money and her maid. Margery Kempe had been marginalized by this group of men, a priest amongst them, and put in her place (Collis 55-62). She was subjected to this kind of brutality because she was a woman who spoke out of turn when she dared to reprimand her male companions for what she considered to be wanton and frivolous behaviour while on pilgrimage to those holy places where the lord was q...
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