The Statute of Language of Religion. The pursuit for a place in Latin America

Abstract

Current research has highlighted the centrality of the language of religion for a scientific study of the discipline in Latin America, this statement contrasts with the fact that the language of religion is not even indicated in manuals as a subdiscipline, or barely mentioned as an area under construction, this shows the lack of a theoretical foundation on the epistemic status of this discipline. The language of religion does not refer to the instrumental character of language but to a politics of the sign that constitutes a semiotic system that is at the origin of each culture. Thus, the article proposes a semiotic model and provides some semiotic clues for an epistemic statute of the language of religion in Latin America. Based on semiotic categories such as place, text production and limits texts, from which we expose that the language of religion produces strange texts, limits, which are linked to places of production, practices, beliefs, values that configure the social space and build the space of religion.