Paul Chilton received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. His research and writing have spanned several fields, including linguistics, discourse analysis, politics, international relations, and religious literature. He has worked in several universities, including Warwick, Lancaster, and Stanford, and has also lectured widely in China. His current research is in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and their links with neuroscience. Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around the interface of language and cognition, identity, media discourse and the pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of religion, ethnicity, and conflict/terrorism.

• PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSCONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION Religion as a Cognitive and Linguistic PhenomenonPaul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska PART I RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE, MIND AND BRAIN CHAPTER 1 Whatever Happened to Theolinguistics? David Crystal CHAPTER 2 Speaking about God in Universal Words, Thinking about God outside EnglishAnna Wierzbicka CHAPTER 3 Religious Metaphors at the Crossroads between Apophatical Theology and Cognitive Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Study Kurt Feyaerts and Lieven Boeve CHAPTER 4 Linguistics and the Scientific Study of Religion: Prayer as a Cognitive RegisterWilliam Downes CHAPTER 5 Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Language: A Working HypothesisPatrick McNamara and Magda Giordano CHAPTER 6 God, Metaphor and the Language of the HemispheresIain McGilchrist PART II INVESTIGATING METAPHOR IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS CHAPTER 7 A Composite Countenance: The Divine Face as Mixed Metaphor in Jewish MysticismEllen Haskell CHAPTER 8 The Guru's Tongue: Metaphor, Imagery, and Vernacular Language in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Hindu TraditionsGlen Alexander Hayes CHAPTER 9 Snakes, Leaves and Poisoned Arrows: Metaphors of Emotion in Early BuddhismHubert Kowalewski CHAPTER 10 Buddhist Metaphors in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra: A Cognitive PerspectiveXiuping Gao and Chun Lan CHAPTER 11 The Muslim Prophetic Tradition: Spatial Source Domains for Metaphorical Expressions Ahmad El-Sharif CHAPTER 12 Metaphor in Religious Transformation: 'Circumcision of the Heart' in Paul of TarsusRalph Bisschops PART III NEW PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 13 Cognitive Pragmatics and Multi-layered Communication: Allegory in Christian Religious Discourse Christoph Unger CHAPTER 14 Metaphor and Metonymy in Language and Art: the Dogma of the Holy Trinity and its Artistic RepresentationAntonio Barcelona CHAPTER 15 Waging a War against Oneself: a Conceptual Blend at the Heart of Christian Ascetic PracticeMihailo Antovi? CHAPTER 16 Hoc est corpus: Deixis and the Integration of Ritual Space Paul Chilton and David Cram CHAPTER 17 The Televisualization of Ritual: Spirituality, Spatiality and Co-presence in Religious Broadcasting Monika Kopytowska

This is a book highly recommended to researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, theologians and priests but also lay people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Most chapters can be consid-ered independently. But in any case, do not miss the splendid and informative introduction and overview.

Paul Chilton received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. His research and writing have spanned several fields, including linguistics, discourse analysis, politics, international relations, and religious literature. He has worked in several universities, including Warwick, Lancaster, and Stanford, and has also lectured widely in China. His current research is in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and their links with neuroscience. Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around the interface of language and cognition, identity, media discourse and the pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of religion, ethnicity, and conflict/terrorism.

• PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSCONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION Religion as a Cognitive and Linguistic PhenomenonPaul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska PART I RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE, MIND AND BRAIN CHAPTER 1 Whatever Happened to Theolinguistics? David Crystal CHAPTER 2 Speaking about God in Universal Words, Thinking about God outside EnglishAnna Wierzbicka CHAPTER 3 Religious Metaphors at the Crossroads between Apophatical Theology and Cognitive Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Study Kurt Feyaerts and Lieven Boeve CHAPTER 4 Linguistics and the Scientific Study of Religion: Prayer as a Cognitive RegisterWilliam Downes CHAPTER 5 Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Language: A Working HypothesisPatrick McNamara and Magda Giordano CHAPTER 6 God, Metaphor and the Language of the HemispheresIain McGilchrist PART II INVESTIGATING METAPHOR IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS CHAPTER 7 A Composite Countenance: The Divine Face as Mixed Metaphor in Jewish MysticismEllen Haskell CHAPTER 8 The Guru's Tongue: Metaphor, Imagery, and Vernacular Language in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Hindu TraditionsGlen Alexander Hayes CHAPTER 9 Snakes, Leaves and Poisoned Arrows: Metaphors of Emotion in Early BuddhismHubert Kowalewski CHAPTER 10 Buddhist Metaphors in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra: A Cognitive PerspectiveXiuping Gao and Chun Lan CHAPTER 11 The Muslim Prophetic Tradition: Spatial Source Domains for Metaphorical Expressions Ahmad El-Sharif CHAPTER 12 Metaphor in Religious Transformation: 'Circumcision of the Heart' in Paul of TarsusRalph Bisschops PART III NEW PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 13 Cognitive Pragmatics and Multi-layered Communication: Allegory in Christian Religious Discourse Christoph Unger CHAPTER 14 Metaphor and Metonymy in Language and Art: the Dogma of the Holy Trinity and its Artistic RepresentationAntonio Barcelona CHAPTER 15 Waging a War against Oneself: a Conceptual Blend at the Heart of Christian Ascetic PracticeMihailo Antovi? CHAPTER 16 Hoc est corpus: Deixis and the Integration of Ritual Space Paul Chilton and David Cram CHAPTER 17 The Televisualization of Ritual: Spirituality, Spatiality and Co-presence in Religious Broadcasting Monika Kopytowska

This is a book highly recommended to researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, theologians and priests but also lay people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Most chapters can be consid-ered independently. But in any case, do not miss the splendid and informative introduction and overview.

Paul Chilton received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. His research and writing have spanned several fields, including linguistics, discourse analysis, politics, international relations, and religious literature. He has worked in several universities, including Warwick, Lancaster, and Stanford, and has also lectured widely in China. His current research is in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and their links with neuroscience. Monika Kopytowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Lodz, Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around the interface of language and cognition, identity, media discourse and the pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of religion, ethnicity, and conflict/terrorism.

• PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSCONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION Religion as a Cognitive and Linguistic PhenomenonPaul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska PART I RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE, MIND AND BRAIN CHAPTER 1 Whatever Happened to Theolinguistics? David Crystal CHAPTER 2 Speaking about God in Universal Words, Thinking about God outside EnglishAnna Wierzbicka CHAPTER 3 Religious Metaphors at the Crossroads between Apophatical Theology and Cognitive Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Study Kurt Feyaerts and Lieven Boeve CHAPTER 4 Linguistics and the Scientific Study of Religion: Prayer as a Cognitive RegisterWilliam Downes CHAPTER 5 Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Language: A Working HypothesisPatrick McNamara and Magda Giordano CHAPTER 6 God, Metaphor and the Language of the HemispheresIain McGilchrist PART II INVESTIGATING METAPHOR IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS CHAPTER 7 A Composite Countenance: The Divine Face as Mixed Metaphor in Jewish MysticismEllen Haskell CHAPTER 8 The Guru's Tongue: Metaphor, Imagery, and Vernacular Language in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Hindu TraditionsGlen Alexander Hayes CHAPTER 9 Snakes, Leaves and Poisoned Arrows: Metaphors of Emotion in Early BuddhismHubert Kowalewski CHAPTER 10 Buddhist Metaphors in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra: A Cognitive PerspectiveXiuping Gao and Chun Lan CHAPTER 11 The Muslim Prophetic Tradition: Spatial Source Domains for Metaphorical Expressions Ahmad El-Sharif CHAPTER 12 Metaphor in Religious Transformation: 'Circumcision of the Heart' in Paul of TarsusRalph Bisschops PART III NEW PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 13 Cognitive Pragmatics and Multi-layered Communication: Allegory in Christian Religious Discourse Christoph Unger CHAPTER 14 Metaphor and Metonymy in Language and Art: the Dogma of the Holy Trinity and its Artistic RepresentationAntonio Barcelona CHAPTER 15 Waging a War against Oneself: a Conceptual Blend at the Heart of Christian Ascetic PracticeMihailo Antovi? CHAPTER 16 Hoc est corpus: Deixis and the Integration of Ritual Space Paul Chilton and David Cram CHAPTER 17 The Televisualization of Ritual: Spirituality, Spatiality and Co-presence in Religious Broadcasting Monika Kopytowska

This is a book highly recommended to researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, theologians and priests but also lay people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Most chapters can be consid-ered independently. But in any case, do not miss the splendid and informative introduction and overview.