Valerie Hobbs is a linguist at the University of Sheffield, where she researches and teaches on religious language and other uses of language for specific purposes.
My next book, No Love in War: A Story of Christian Nationalism (forthcoming, Mayfly Books), is an auto-ethnographic account of the everyday – and often violent – realities of life without love, among those who pursue war.
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish.
Valerie Hobbs 