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oai:doaj.org/article:ed7e354541bc42b68514d3f8f49bcbb8

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10.5752/P.2175-5841.2016v14n42p240

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Religion and language: proposed articulation of a complex field

Abstract

Relations between religion and language are being retreated in postgraduate programmes in Brazil through congresses working groups, research groups and focus areas dedicated to studying what has been agreed as Religion Languages. This article proposes linking this new area of study with a semi-optic and cognitive approach to the subject, proposing the study of religion as a secondary language system, using three key semi-optical systems: gesture, image (metaphor) and narrative. They find correlation in the triad: rito – icon (poetry) – myth. These three systems relate to each other by creating hybrid and multi-coded texts in culture, with high power to generate new messages. The fictional and groteworthy aspects of religious expressions are also addressed as some of their distinctive aspects. According to them, despite religion structuring the world as language, it tends to strengthen and clarify games of ‘as if’ culture, as well as to bring representations to the boundaries of established systems. Religion therefore proposes to culture dense and caleidoscopic systems of representation, whereby ambiguous and paradoxical aspects of existence and society are articulated verbatim.

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