You are here: Home :: Keyword index :: ima bis sem :: recoverability - repentance preacher religion

Items for "religion"

Achieved similarity: Describing experience in Seventh-Day Adventist Bible study

The author analyzes how participants of Seventh-Day Adventist Bible study describe their experience as similar to that of the characters of the Bible stories they are reading...

Keywords: conversation analysis, descriptions, experience, institutional interaction, religion

05/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

What do the ten commandments do? A study of lawyers' semiotics

Against the background of two U.S. Supreme Court cases in 2005 on the question of the public display of the Ten Commandments in the context of the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, the article addresses the way the lawyers, especially the judges, discussed the status of the Ten Commandments as a text and as a symbol...

Keywords: text, symbol, Ten Commandments, religion, law

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Funny as hell: Christianity and humor reconsidered

Christianity has long been held to be at odds with humor. Centuries of Christian theology, as well as modern studies on religion, illustrate this tension...

Keywords: Christianity, epistemology, humor, religion

01/2008 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

Deixis, taqiyya, and textual mediation in crypto-Muslim Aragon

The present article is an analysis of the scribal and lectoral activities of crypto-Muslim minority communities within sixteenth-century Aragon (Spain)...

Keywords: reading, religion, deixis, mediation, Islam, Iberia

01/2008 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Ownership and use of old and new media among ethnic minority youth in the Netherlands. The role of the ethno-cultural position.

The starting point of the present study is to investigate which environmental factors play a role in the media behavior of ethnic minority youth...

Keywords: ethnic minority youth, The Netherlands, new media, media ownership and use, ethno-cultural position, religion

10/2002 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

Culture-specific features as determinants of news media use

This article, which looks at exposure to and the use of host and home media by Turkish diaspora in Belgium, illustrates that media use is determined by cultural as well as socio-demographic features...

Keywords: Turkish diaspora, Flanders, home and host media preferences, religion, ethnic-cultural position, news media use

06/2007 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

Publisher and Institutes