The volumes in this series include current research on the debates at the intersection of linguistics and a range of sciences, social sciences and humanities fields, including health, business, law, and music. Each volume includes research from both sides of the fields covered, ensuring clear discussions about terminological divides, shared and differing approaches, as well as varying and similar bodies of literature.

• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Ritual and language
• To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system
• Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras
• Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft
• The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification
• Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches
• Part II: Ideologies of religious language
• Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity
• The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought
• Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language
• Ineffability and music in early Christian theology
• The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England
• The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style
• The place of language in discursive studies of religion
• Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn
• Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments
• The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing
• Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction
• The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer
• “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio
• Contributors
• Index