Remo Gramigna The semiotics of likeness: Identity, verisimilitude and falsity in Augustine1 Introduction2 Image, verisimilitude and falsity in the Soliloquia3 Beyond Augustine4 Image, identity and likeness in the De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus, in the De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus liber and in the De trinitateAcknowledgmentsAlin Olteanu An overlooked episode in the history of semiotics: The iconoclast controversy and its relevance for the iconic turn1 Introduction: Why is the iconoclast controversy relevant for contemporary semiotics?2 Peirce’s concepts of sign and icon3 Learning through icons4 The iconic turn5 The semiotics of Christian patristics6 The Iconoclast controversy7 Implications for multimodality8 Concluding: Inclusivity in the history of semioticsTakaharu Oda Semiotics against transubstantiation: Peirce’s reception of Berkeley1 Introduction2 Berkeleyanism through the lens of Peirce’s pragmatism3 Berkeley’s pragmatism in his theory of signs: the case for quasi-reference4 Against transubstantiation in Berkeley’s and Peirce’s pragmatist semiotics5 ConclusionNaomi Janowitz A Peircean approach to late antique ascent texts1 Introduction2 A Peircean approach to signs in ascent3 Human and angelic choruses sing together4 Divine words of praise: Humans sing angelic liturgy5 Concluding thoughtsTatsuma Padoan On the Semiotics of Space in the Study of Religions: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Challenges1 Introduction2 A different idea of semiotics3 A theory of embodied action4 A semiotics of space5 Sacred space in Katsuragi6 The semiotics of the natural world: Sacred narratives in translation7 Texts, bodies, places and temporalities8 Ritual enunciation of space9 ConclusionJenny Ponzo, Francesco Galofaro Religion and the semiotization of space: The case of the Madonna del Rocciamelone1 Introduction2 Homologating structures of the religious discourse3 The Madonna del Rocciamelone in Rosaz’ discourse4 The semiosphere of the Rocciamelone in the Valley of Susa5 ConclusionMony Almalech Colors as a semiotic tool for Bible analysis1 Introduction2 The method3 A semiotic iceberg4 General conclusionsMassimo Leone Form and force of the sacred: A semiotic study of the temptations of Saint Anthony1 Introduction2 The roots of temptation: Jerusalem and Athens3 The contagion of temptation: From Cézanne to Ernst4 The biographies of temptation: Foucault, Valéry, Borges, Barthes5 The majesty of the temptation: Nietzsche6 The theatricality of the temptation: Marionettes7 Scenographies of the temptation: Callot8 Conclusions: Literary exercise and ritual exorcism