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Books by Jason Van Boom
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. , 2023
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Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Muhammad and the Foundations of Islamic Religion,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 76-78.
Sign, Method, and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion. Semiotics of Religion 5 / Religion and Reason 64. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110694925., 2021
Cross-fertilizing the areas of religious studies and language studies, Semiotics of Religion, a c... more Cross-fertilizing the areas of religious studies and language studies, Semiotics of Religion, a component of the series Religion and Reason, publishes works that deal with the symbolic patterns of religious cultures. While stressing the theoretical reading of religious phenomena, the series emphasizes placing religious beliefs and expressions in their historical and socio-cultural contexts, as well as establishing well-documented comparisons among different religious traditions. Interdisciplinary at its core, Semiotics of Religion welcomes contributions from researchers in all subfi elds of semiotics-including cultural semiotics, cognitive semiotics, structural semiotics, semiotic anthropology, visual semiotics, the semiotics of the arts-and from adjacent disciplines such as linguistics, discourse analysis, performance studies, communications, and rhetoric as well as semiotically-oriented submissions from religious studies, cultural studies, literary studies, gender studies, post-colonial studies, and material culture. The series considers proposals on every religious culture, provided that their methodo logical focus bears on the understanding of religion as a form of signifi cation and communication.
Papers by Jason Van Boom
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](Sign Systems Studies, 2023
This article is based on the presentation we gave at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Cong... more This article is based on the presentation we gave at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Congress, “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere,” Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, 25-28 February 2022.
This paper examines the Great Kanon (also Great Canon; in the original Greek, Ὁ Μέγας Κανών) of St Andrew of Crete (ca. 660–740) as a case study in how religious ritual texts deploy autocommunicative processes. To study this complex liturgical hymn that occupies a key role in the ritual practice of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians we employ a theoretical framework rooted primarily in Juri Lotman’s theory of autocommunication, as complemented by more recent developments in social and cognitive semiotics, particularly ideas of multimodality and viewpoint. We find that the Great Kanon performs a variety of autocommunicative functions, primarily through its provision of a rhetorical metalanguage for the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments. This is a metalanguage which is multimodally enacted in ritual performance. The process makes the believer’s experience of reading the Bible an open and unfolding dialogue, in which the viewpoints of biblical characters beco...
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Unam Sanctam Proclaims Papal Supremacy,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 55-56.
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Theology of Thomas Aquinas,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 53-54.
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Theological Impact of the Writings of Thomas Aquinas,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 51-53.
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 3: Early Modern and Modern Worlds. , 2023
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Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “American Jewish Views of Slavery and Abolition,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 3: Early Modern and Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 37-39.
Barth delivered the lectures that form the basis of this commentary in Basel during the winter of... more Barth delivered the lectures that form the basis of this commentary in Basel during the winter of 1940-41, five years after he had been banned from his teaching post in Bonn for his criticism of the Nazi regime. The historical context gives added interest to his reflection on Rom 9-11. While Barth does little to mitigate what he takes to be an account of Israel's disobedience in those chapters, he forcefully refutes the idea that the Jews have been finally rejected by God, calling anti-Semitism the "most potent form of disobedience." God wills the "disobedient Synagogue," according to Barth, in order to extend mercy to the world. However, if the Jews' "rejection" is the Gentiles' gain, the latter's ultimate hope depends on the inclusion of Israel-and the last word has not been spoken on those whom God has "hardened." More broadly, this commentary is presented as an explication of Paul's claim in Rom 1 : 17 that the Gospel reveals the righteousness of God. Although it is the "power of God for salvation," the Gospel initially confronts humanity with God's wrath, the object of which is the sinner's mistaken selfconfidence. Salvation, the "good centre in the hard shell," lies in the acceptance of the guilty verdict borne by Jesus Christ. The believer is not made righteous in appearance only, but "seriously," and his task is to live according to the "new order" of which he is a part-or, as Barth puts it, the "imperative" is explained by the "indicative." The current volume is a reprint of the original English translation from 1959.
Conference Presentations by Jason Van Boom
This is the PowerPoint for the presentation I gave at the international workshop "Roots and Antic... more This is the PowerPoint for the presentation I gave at the international workshop "Roots and Anticipations of Peirce's Pragmatism: The Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity" held at Trinity College Dublin and sponsored by the Mind Association on 22 June 2023.
This is the abstract of my presentation at the 3rd World Congress on Logic of Religion (3rd WoCoL... more This is the abstract of my presentation at the 3rd World Congress on Logic of Religion (3rd WoCoLoR) held at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India on 4-8 November 2022. I am currently revising and preparing it for publication.
![Research paper thumbnail of “Have You not heard, my soul […]?” The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete as a multimodal text](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/104603421/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](This is the PowerPoint from our presentation at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Congress,... more This is the PowerPoint from our presentation at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Congress, “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere,” Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, 25-28 February 2022. The article version of this (which omits the St. Mary of Egypt discussion so as to focus only on St. Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon, has been published in Sign Systems Studies in September 2023.
Van Boom, Jason and Alin Olteanu. “’Have you not heard, my soul [...]?’: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text.” Sign Systems Studies 51 (2), 2023, 301-28 https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2023.51.2.05
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. , 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Muhammad and the Foundations of Islamic Religion,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 76-78.
Sign, Method, and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion. Semiotics of Religion 5 / Religion and Reason 64. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110694925., 2021
Cross-fertilizing the areas of religious studies and language studies, Semiotics of Religion, a c... more Cross-fertilizing the areas of religious studies and language studies, Semiotics of Religion, a component of the series Religion and Reason, publishes works that deal with the symbolic patterns of religious cultures. While stressing the theoretical reading of religious phenomena, the series emphasizes placing religious beliefs and expressions in their historical and socio-cultural contexts, as well as establishing well-documented comparisons among different religious traditions. Interdisciplinary at its core, Semiotics of Religion welcomes contributions from researchers in all subfi elds of semiotics-including cultural semiotics, cognitive semiotics, structural semiotics, semiotic anthropology, visual semiotics, the semiotics of the arts-and from adjacent disciplines such as linguistics, discourse analysis, performance studies, communications, and rhetoric as well as semiotically-oriented submissions from religious studies, cultural studies, literary studies, gender studies, post-colonial studies, and material culture. The series considers proposals on every religious culture, provided that their methodo logical focus bears on the understanding of religion as a form of signifi cation and communication.
Sign Systems Studies, 2023
This article is based on the presentation we gave at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Cong... more This article is based on the presentation we gave at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Congress, “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere,” Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, 25-28 February 2022.
This paper examines the Great Kanon (also Great Canon; in the original Greek, Ὁ Μέγας Κανών) of St Andrew of Crete (ca. 660–740) as a case study in how religious ritual texts deploy autocommunicative processes. To study this complex liturgical hymn that occupies a key role in the ritual practice of Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians we employ a theoretical framework rooted primarily in Juri Lotman’s theory of autocommunication, as complemented by more recent developments in social and cognitive semiotics, particularly ideas of multimodality and viewpoint. We find that the Great Kanon performs a variety of autocommunicative functions, primarily through its provision of a rhetorical metalanguage for the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments. This is a metalanguage which is multimodally enacted in ritual performance. The process makes the believer’s experience of reading the Bible an open and unfolding dialogue, in which the viewpoints of biblical characters beco...
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Unam Sanctam Proclaims Papal Supremacy,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 55-56.
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Theology of Thomas Aquinas,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 53-54.
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “Theological Impact of the Writings of Thomas Aquinas,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 2: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 51-53.
Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 3: Early Modern and Modern Worlds. , 2023
This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upl... more This is the final draft of the manuscript. I do not yet have permission from the publisher to upload the printed version. Please cite this as:
Van Boom, Jason Cronbach (2023). “American Jewish Views of Slavery and Abolition,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Religion Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Volume 3: Early Modern and Modern Worlds. Andrew Holt, editor. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 37-39.
Barth delivered the lectures that form the basis of this commentary in Basel during the winter of... more Barth delivered the lectures that form the basis of this commentary in Basel during the winter of 1940-41, five years after he had been banned from his teaching post in Bonn for his criticism of the Nazi regime. The historical context gives added interest to his reflection on Rom 9-11. While Barth does little to mitigate what he takes to be an account of Israel's disobedience in those chapters, he forcefully refutes the idea that the Jews have been finally rejected by God, calling anti-Semitism the "most potent form of disobedience." God wills the "disobedient Synagogue," according to Barth, in order to extend mercy to the world. However, if the Jews' "rejection" is the Gentiles' gain, the latter's ultimate hope depends on the inclusion of Israel-and the last word has not been spoken on those whom God has "hardened." More broadly, this commentary is presented as an explication of Paul's claim in Rom 1 : 17 that the Gospel reveals the righteousness of God. Although it is the "power of God for salvation," the Gospel initially confronts humanity with God's wrath, the object of which is the sinner's mistaken selfconfidence. Salvation, the "good centre in the hard shell," lies in the acceptance of the guilty verdict borne by Jesus Christ. The believer is not made righteous in appearance only, but "seriously," and his task is to live according to the "new order" of which he is a part-or, as Barth puts it, the "imperative" is explained by the "indicative." The current volume is a reprint of the original English translation from 1959.
This is the PowerPoint for the presentation I gave at the international workshop "Roots and Antic... more This is the PowerPoint for the presentation I gave at the international workshop "Roots and Anticipations of Peirce's Pragmatism: The Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity" held at Trinity College Dublin and sponsored by the Mind Association on 22 June 2023.
This is the abstract of my presentation at the 3rd World Congress on Logic of Religion (3rd WoCoL... more This is the abstract of my presentation at the 3rd World Congress on Logic of Religion (3rd WoCoLoR) held at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India on 4-8 November 2022. I am currently revising and preparing it for publication.
This is the PowerPoint from our presentation at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Congress,... more This is the PowerPoint from our presentation at the Juri Lotman Centenary International Congress, “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere,” Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, 25-28 February 2022. The article version of this (which omits the St. Mary of Egypt discussion so as to focus only on St. Andrew of Crete’s Great Kanon, has been published in Sign Systems Studies in September 2023.
Van Boom, Jason and Alin Olteanu. “’Have you not heard, my soul [...]?’: The Great Kanon of St Andrew of Crete as a multimodal autocommunicative text.” Sign Systems Studies 51 (2), 2023, 301-28 https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2023.51.2.05