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Volume 2 2026

Communal Mysticism as a Social Contract: An Ethnographic Reinterpretation of Datu Legends in South Kalimantan by Faradina, Rusma Noortyani, Sainul Hermawan, Jumadi, Fatchul Mu’in
Poetic Aesthetics and Qur’anic Numerology in Malay ‘Syair Nasihat’: A Semiotic Study of Rhyme, Meaning, and Spirituality by Asep Yudha Wirajaya, Bani Sudardi, Istadiyantha and Warto
From Ellora To Ayodhya: A Semiotic Analysis of Rama Iconography in Indian Temple Traditions by Sagnik Mridul
From Reversibility to Integration: Models of Duality of the Sign in Christian Visual Culture by Yuliia Khlystun
Exploring the Ambiguity in Representation of Punakawan by Harpang Yudha Karyawanto, Widodo, and Aris Wahyudi
Cultural Legacy and Semiotic Wisdom of Sight: Analyzing Visual Perception in Jordanian Proverbs by Omar Mohammad-Ameen Ahmad Hazaymeh
Semiotic Representation of Cultural Values in Kangean Wedding Ritual Discourse by Arina Fitriana, Fatchul Mu’in, Jumadi and Rusma Noortyani
Returning to Saussure: The Sign is Arbitrary in all Possible Manners by Thomas Olver
Pragmatic Contexts and Common Ground in Nigerian STI/HIV Doctor-Patient Interactions by Oluwaseun Onaolapo AMUSA
The Poetics of Surgery: Metaphorical Organs, Semiotic Migration, and the Virtual Body by Hooman Ghorbanian and Mohsen Emamverdi

Volume 1

Revival of Cabaret Theatre Traditions in Modern Art of Clowning by Vyacheslav Polunin by Elena A. Semenova
A Semiotic Analysis of Anthropomorphic Conceptions of God in Biblical Verses by M. Mahmud
Women’s Embodiment as Semiotic: A Multimodal Analysis of Spatial Meaning in Novi Kristinawati’s Design by S. Agustin, A. Saidi, I. Damajanti, and H. Ahmad
Hidden Semantics of the Painting Program in the Church of the Narva Icon of the Mother of God in Narva by Yuliia Khlystun
Representation of Religious Trauma in Sefi Attah’s Hailstones from Zamfar Kalejaiyek Oluwakemi Abiola and Shogunle Oluwaseyi Nathaniel
Mythologemes of Death, the Garden, and Time in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland by A.Shapauov, Y.Turovskaya, S.Negimov and Z. Talaspayeva
Between the Slavery of the Law and the Freedom of the Promise in Grace: A Semiotic Reading of the Allegory of Sarah and Hagar by Nilthon Fernandes
Parole and Subjectivity: A Psycho-Semiotic and Poststructuralist Exploration by Sapanpreet Kaur
Fate, Uncertainty and Mystery of the Supernatural: Ironical Indictment as Literary Hermeneutics in Elechi Amadi’s The Great Ponds and The Concubine by N. Akingbe, C. Ogunyemi and N. Echendu
Interpretation as Creative Objective Act by Liliano Pazo
Communal Mysticism as a Social Contract: An Ethnographic Reinterpretation of Datu Legends in South Kalimantan by Faradina, Rusma Noortyani, Sainul Hermawan, Jumadi, Fatchul Mu’in

Discussion - Yuliia Khlystun and Geoffrey Sykes On Religion Part One

On Religion Part Two

Reviews and Commentaries

Article Reviews
Haunted by Christ by Richard Harris

Peirce and Religion - Oral Presentation by Geoffrey Sykes

Editor

Geoffrey Sykes

Associate / Foundation editors

Julitta Khlystun, Researcher at the Narva Museum (SA Narva Muuseum) Estonia

Associate Professor John Dearin, Notre Dame University, Australia

Editorial Board

Erica Robles Anderson, Associate Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Nicoleta Blanariu, University “Vasile Alecsandri”, Romania

Nilthon Fernandes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

Fatima Festić, Amsterdam University: Amsterdam School for Transnational, European, and Regional Studies, Senior Researcher

Massimo Leone, University of Torino, Italy

Inna Merkoulova, Associate Professor, Founder and Director of the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN), Moscow

Clive Pearson, Theologian, Uniting Church of Australia (pending)

Susan Petrilli, University of Bari, Italy

Professor Emeritus Garry Trompf, Religious Studies, University of Sydney, Australia (pending)

Paul Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney Australia

Associates

Administrative Associate Kristina Ilisevic, University of New South Wales, Australia

Sriparashara Rishikesha Bhattar, Purohita and Archaka, Sydney Australia

Rev John Queripel, Uniting Church of Australia

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ISSN 3083-2438 (Online) ISSN 3083-2446 (Print)