looking at religion through linguistical methods [f597b99b]
religion, languages/linguistics, project ideas
1. Premise
1. Premise
- If religion and linguistics are alike, what tools can be borrowed from linguistics to analyze religion, and specifically the Shias of Iraq?
- Religion as the set of $\{form, syntax, meaning\}$
1.1. Why religion and linguistics
1.1. Why religion and linguistics
1.2. What tools can be borrowed?
1.2. What tools can be borrowed?
- rituals as a performance, as the form, but what gives it meaning?