Introduction

A pragmatic semiotic theory of religious symbolism

Robert Cummings Neville

Analogy and disclosures: On religious language

Wim A. De Pater

On the names of God: Notes on the construction of interpretive frames for religious language

Gustavo Zonana

Analogy, metaphor, and religious language

Richard G. Swinburne

Metaphors, transcendence and indirect communication: Alfred Schutz' phenomenology of the life-world and the metaphors of religion

Hubert Knoblauch

Christian theographic metaphors: Ordinary words with extraordinary meanings

Jean-Pierre van Noppen

Religious communication and pragmatic metaphors

Robert Maier

In the name of the God: Towards a concept of virtual meaning

Zdravko Radman

`Mother in heaven': A desirable metaphor?

Roberta Pires de Oliveira

Religious metaphors in a postmodern culture: Transverse links between apophatical theology and cognitive semantics

Lieven Boeve

Kurt Feyaerts

The metaphorical and metonymic understanding of the trinitarian dogma

Antonio Barcelona

`Heart' as metaphor in religious discourse

Troels Nørager

The sacred centre of orthodoxy: Metaphorical links between sexual impurity and heresy

William H. Huseman

Religious metaphor and cognitive linguistics: Perceptual metaphors for knowledge at a Marian apparition site

Victor Balaban

Strategic mechanisms within religious symbol systems