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. She is co-editor of and contributor to Languages, Cultures, Media (2016) and Why Discourse matters: Negotiating Identity in the Mediatized World (2014), editor-in-chief of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, and associate editor of Moral Cognition and Communication.

PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION Religion as a Cognitive and Linguistic Phenomenon
Paul 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 English
Anna 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 Register
William Downes

CHAPTER 5 Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Language: A Working
Hypothesis
Patrick McNamara and Magda Giordano

CHAPTER 6 God, Metaphor and the Language of the Hemispheres
Iain McGilchrist

PART II INVESTIGATING METAPHOR IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS

CHAPTER 7 A Composite Countenance: The Divine Face as Mixed Metaphor
in Jewish Mysticism
Ellen Haskell

CHAPTER 8 The Guru's Tongue: Metaphor, Imagery, and Vernacular
Language in Vai??ava Sahajiy? Hindu Traditions
Glen Alexander Hayes

CHAPTER 9 Snakes, Leaves and Poisoned Arrows:
Metaphors of Emotion in Early Buddhism
Hubert Kowalewski

CHAPTER 10 Buddhist Metaphors in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra: A Cognitive Perspective
Xiuping 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 Tarsus
Ralph 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 Representation
Antonio Barcelona

CHAPTER 15 Waging a War against Oneself: a Conceptual Blend at the Heart of Christian Ascetic Practice
Mihailo 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