"Thou Shalt Not Take the Lord's Name in Vain": Being a Sort of Sermon on the Hesitations of Religious Speech

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Latour
Keyword(s):  
Religious Speech

scholarly journals Analyzing Religious Speech in Terms of Speech Act Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Sherwan Hussein Hamad ◽  
Talar Sabah Omer
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Speech ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Economic

           Every Friday, articles were presented at mosques, and the subject of  the articles involved all aspects of human life, political, economic, social,…Any phenomenon in the society is mentioned in religious speeches. These articles will be part of religious discourse in Kurdistan, one of the subjects we have chosen for this investigation and we will study it from the perspective of a speech by Mala Araz about condemning the Turkish attack on the kurds. The aim of our study is to analyze religious discourse from a pragmatic perspective to achieve the goal that we have analyzed in the methodology, and we have received an example from the book" Mala Araz", which is in the context of the central Kurdish language kurmanji dialect.

‘Smelling’ diasporic: bargaining interactions and the problem of politeness

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Religious Speech ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tension Analysis

Abstract While post-migrant generation Moroccans from Europe often are able to converse competently enough in Moroccan languages to bargain in shops during visits to Morocco, many report that they are not given the ‘local’, ‘right’ prices because they are ‘smelled’ as outsiders. During fieldwork following these diasporic visitors in Morocco, several participants strategically shopped for goods with a ‘local’ friend or family member who might negotiate on their behalf for the ‘right’ price. This strategy was seen as a way to circumvent or ameliorate the ways the diasporic client might be negatively categorized as an outsider, especially in terms of his or her language use. Yet, examining these events in recorded detail indicates that diasporic clients are often bargaining for themselves as competent speakers, but are sometimes not able to skillfully bargain politely. In these moments, proxy bargainers intervene when debate and tension increases during bargaining and diasporic visitors do not adequately perform politeness – specifically by deploying religious speech – to soften and minimize tension. Analysis of these interactions indicates how diasporic branching of linguistic practice contrasts communicative skills of mobile populations with subtle, place-based competences, and how the mismatch between these can negatively mark diasporic visitors.

A Construal Level Account of the Impact of Religion and God on Prosociality

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1107-1120
Author(s):  
Mustafa Karataş ◽  
Zeynep Gürhan-Canli
Keyword(s):  
Past Research ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Religious Speech ◽  
Religious Constructs ◽  
The Impact

This research shows that the two most prevalent religious constructs—God and religion—differentially impact cognition. Activating thoughts about God (vs. religion) induces a relatively more abstract (vs. concrete) mindset (Studies 1a–1c). Consequently, time donation intentions (Study 2) and actual monetary donations (Study 3) after a God (vs. religion) prime increase when people are presented an abstractly (vs. concretely) framed donation appeal. Similarly, people donate more money to distant (vs. close) donation targets, which are construed relatively abstractly (vs. concretely), when a religious speech activates predominantly God-specific (vs. religion-specific) thoughts (Study 4). These effects are mediated by “feeling right” under construal level fit (Study 3). Overall, this research significantly advances extant knowledge on religious cognition and past research on the link between religion and prosociality.

Part III, 12 Religious Expression

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahdar Rex ◽  
Leigh Ian
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Religious Speech

This chapter begins with discussions of the importance of the freedom of religious expression and how religious liberty can conflict with free speech. It then considers protections for religious speech, restrictions on anti-religious speech, and limitations on religious expression. It argues that free speech is the best defence for a tolerant open society in which diversity of religious expression flourishes. There are clear signs, however, that these values are under threat, both for reasons concerned ostensibly with protecting public order, non-discrimination and, paradoxically, religious liberty itself.

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