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Passwords to Paradise

Author : Nicholas Ostler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620405172
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Passwords to Paradise written by Nicholas Ostler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters, the words we read now are in any number of languages that would have been unknown or unrecognizable at the time of their composition. The gospel may have been originally dictated or written in Aramaic, but our only written source for the story is in Greek. Today, as your average American reader of the New Testament picks up his or her Bible off the shelf, the phrase as it appears has been translated from various linguistic intermediaries before its current manifestation in modern English. How to understand these words then, when so many other translators, languages, and cultures have exercised some level of influence on them? Christian tradition is not unique in facing this problem. All religions--if they have global aspirations--have to change in order to spread their influence, and often language has been the most powerful agent thereof. Passwords to Paradise explores the effects that language difference and language conversion have wrought on the world's great faiths, spanning more than two thousand years. It is an original and intriguing perspective on the history of religion by a master linguistic historian.

The Languages of Religion

Author : Sipra Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429880081
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Religion written by Sipra Mukherjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by ‘faith-insiders’ such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator’s role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the ‘sacred’ language with political power. The book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.

Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion

Author : J.F.A. Sawyer
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion written by J.F.A. Sawyer and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides the specialist and the general reader with accurate, up-to-date information on every aspect of the crucial interface between language and religion.

Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions

Author : Edward Brerewood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions written by Edward Brerewood and published by . This book was released on 1622 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities

Author : Vally Lytra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131758127X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities written by Vally Lytra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and socialization, namely homes, religious education classes, places of worship, and faith-related schools and secular schools. Contributors engage with a diverse set of complex multiethnic and religious communities, and investigate the rich multilingual, multiliterate and multi-scriptal practices associated with religion which children and adolescents engage in with a range of mediators, including siblings, peers, parents, grandparents, religious leaders, and other members of the religious community. The volume is organized into three sections according to context and participants: (1) religious practices at home and across generations, (2) religious education classes and places of worship and (3) bridging home, school and community. The edited book will be a valuable resource for researchers in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, socio-linguistics, intercultural communication, and early years, primary and secondary education.

Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

Author : Tope Omoniyi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293376
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion written by Tope Omoniyi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved Joshua A. Fishman, often cited in the literature as one of the founders of the Sociology of Language. Tope Omoniyi brings to the collaboration an insightful and incisive critical eye for engaging with diversity in the treatment of language and religion. Together as editors they have successfully midwived the birth of SLR. The studies and debates contained in this volume revisit those themes that both of the contributory disciplines of Sociology of Language and Religion have common interest in. The contributing authors explore new methodologies and paradigms of analysis that they deem appropriate for this interesting and complex interface in an attempt to demonstrate how the shared interests of these disciplines impact social practices in various communities around the world. The ultimate objective of the discussions is to fashion tools for creating a body of new knowledge that supports the emergence of a better society. Towards this end, the authors have harnessed resources from varied geographical, cultural, linguistic and religious constituencies without compromising analytical depth. In the process, they have opened up new areas of sociolinguistic inquiry. The volume is thus presented as a highly useful reference resource both for undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship.

Language and Religion

Author : Robert Yelle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614514321
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Language and Religion written by Robert Yelle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.

Christianity and Language

Author : Lord Braye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Language written by Lord Braye and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Handbook of Asian Englishes

Author : Kingsley Bolton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118791657
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Asian Englishes written by Kingsley Bolton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally-recognized linguists and scholars of Asian Englishes and Asian languages survey existing works and review new and emerging areas of research in the field. Edited by internationally renowned scholars in the field and structured in four parts, this Handbook explores the status and functions of English in the educational institutions, legal systems, media, popular cultures, and religions of diverse Asian societies. In addition to examining nation-specific topics, this comprehensive volume presents articles exploring pan-Asian issues such as English in Asian schools and universities, English and language policies in the Asian region, and the statistics of English across Asia. Up-to-date research addresses the impact of English as an Asian lingua franca, globalization and Asian Englishes, the dynamics of multilingualism, and more. Examines linguistic history, contemporary linguistic issues, and English in the Outer and Expanding Circles of Asia Focuses on the rapidly-growing complexities of English throughout Asia Includes reviews of the new frontiers of research in Asian Englishes, including the impact of globalization and popular culture Presents an innovative survey of Asian Englishes in one comprehensive volume Serving as an important contribution to fields such as contact linguistics, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and Asian language studies, The Handbook of Asian Englishes is an invaluable reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and instructors across these areas. Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics

Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality

Author : Bob Larson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842364171
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality written by Bob Larson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this indispensable reference tool for parents, students, and pastors alike, Larson analyzes dozens of world religions and spiritual movements from Islam to UFOs, New Age movements to witchcraft. This volume helps address tough questions from a biblical perspective.

Religion, Language, and Power

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135892873
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Language, and Power written by Nile Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers of power, whether scripturalist or otherwise normative and dominant. This book’s de-centering of English classifications goes beyond the remit of most postcolonial studies in that it explores the classifications used in a range of languages — including Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Greek and English — to achieve a comparative survey of the roles of language and power in the making of ‘religion’ . In contextualizing these uses of language, the ten contributors explore how labels are either imposed or emerge interactively through discursive struggles between dominant and marginal groups. In dealing with the interplay of religion, language and power, there is no other book with the breadth of this volume.

Language and Spirit

Author : Robyn Moloney
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030930645
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Language and Spirit written by Robyn Moloney and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book explores stories of linguistic and spiritual identity in the urban and rural Australian landscape. It is an innovative mix of thirty six personal narratives and eleven research studies, which together offer accounts of the intersection of languages, religion and spirituality in people’s lives. Teachers of Indigenous languages speak of the critical connection between language revitalization, the spirituality of Country, and well-being. Both new and long-established diaspora individuals speak of the often complex but vital joint role of language and faith in belonging and heritage. The new dimension which the book brings to multilingualism is relevant to all complex global societies. Language and Spirit is ideal for both the general reader interested in community languages and interfaith issues, and academics in global intercultural studies and Applied Linguistics study wishing to gain a nuanced insight into the Language and Spirit intersection.

Language in Religion

Author : Humphrey Tonkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Language in Religion written by Humphrey Tonkin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers on the role of language in the structure of religious belief and on the function of language in the practices of different religions or faiths, with attention also to language as a factor in the organization of religious movements and in communication among members of the same religion. The study links theory and practiceóit includes some contributions from theologians but it is also concerned with the practical implications of language in religion. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion and linguistics. Contents: Introduction: Language and CultureóA Perspective; Explorations into Linguistic Practice as a Source of Religious Polarities or The Inevitability of Ineffability; The Meaning and Justification of Religious Propositions; Inclusive Language: Form or Substance; Mysticism and the Limits of Language; Mythic and Symbolic Verbal Structures and Literal Meaning in Literature; Fides Quaerens Verbum Hodiernum: Alternative Creeds and Speech Acts; The Bah- i Faith and Universal Language; Esperanto in the Service of Religion; and Prepare, Pray, Practice and Proclaim: Church Lectors and the Inculcation of Linguistic Practice. Co-published with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems.

Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions written by and published by . This book was released on 1635 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces

Author : Andrey Rosowsky
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783099291
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces written by Andrey Rosowsky and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shares the results of research conducted within and across the complex nexus of language, religion and new technologies. It identifies the dynamic and mobile ways religious practice and language interact online to modify, confirm, transform and consolidate linguistic resources and repertoires. It makes a significant contribution to work in the emerging sub-discipline of the sociology of language and religion and adds to the growing work on digital religion. It also showcases leading and ground-breaking researchers working on online and offline examples of the complex relationships evinced by the study of language and religion. The chapter authors explore a wide range of religions, technologies and languages in order to provide an innovative insight into the overlap between the study of language and religion and language and technology.

Language and Religion

Author : Robert Yelle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9781614515944
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Language and Religion written by Robert Yelle and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.

The Sociology of Language and Religion

Author : Tope Omoniyi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230304710
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Language and Religion written by Tope Omoniyi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and accommodation. The multiple religious coverage in the essays (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as well as more or less global panorama.