TY - BOOK AU - Yelle,Robert A. TI - Semiotics of religion : signs of the sacred in history SN - 9781441142825 CY - London PB - Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012 KW - Religion KW - Semiotics N1 - Publication date CIP record. Publication date: 12 12; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -