Frontmatter -- 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