Coda and counterpoint |
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| Authors: | Robert A Yelle |
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| Institution: | 1. Tikvah Center for Law &2. Jewish Civilization, New York University School of Law, New York, NY, USArobertyelle@hotmail.com |
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| Abstract: | This essay responds to several of the issues raised by the various review essays on the author's book, Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History, while simultaneously offering some observations on the nature, current state, and future prospects of the semiotics of religion; on the explanatory ambitions and methodological limitations of this field; and on the location of semiotics in the human sciences and in historical and cultural studies, as distinguished from universalizing or Cartesian approaches. |
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| Keywords: | semiotics religious studies poetry magic secularization Tantra Protestantism |
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