Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality
Edited by Stephen Pihlaja
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 (2017) v, 157 pp.
Stephen Pihlaja
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Pihlaja is involved.
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2025 Abstraction in storytelling Narrative Inquiry 35:1, pp. 162–179 | Article
Discussions of storytelling and narrative have encompassed abstraction in different ways including master narratives (Bamberg, 1997) and storylines (Harré & van Lagenhove, 1998). These discussions, however, have often viewed storytelling and abstraction as a binary distinction, rather than a… read more
2024 A mental spaces analysis of religious identity discourse Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Reyes Llopis-García (eds.), pp. 541–563 | Article
Religious identity is often viewed as a relatively stable construct, reflecting an individual’s personal worldview. However, individuals living within modern multi-cultural societies often must engage in extensive reflection to orient themselves to faith traditions in ways that are coherent and… read more
2017 “When Noah built the ark…”: Metaphor and biblical stories in Facebook preaching Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality, Pihlaja, Stephen (ed.), pp. 87–102 | Article
This article investigates the use of biblical stories and text in the preaching of Joshua Feuerstein, a popular Facebook evangelist, and focuses on how biblical stories are used to position the viewer in comparison to biblical characters and texts. Taking a discourse dynamics approach (Cameron &… read more
2017 Special issue on metaphor in religion and spirituality Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality, Pihlaja, Stephen (ed.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2016 Expressing pleasure and avoiding engagement in online adult video comment sections Journal of Language and Sexuality 5:1, pp. 94–112 | Article
Online video pornography websites have grown into a key online industry and location for pornography consumption. While much work has been done investigating reception of online video generally, discourse analysis of comments and interaction around online pornography remains rare. This article… read more