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The Languages of Religion: Exploring the Politics of the Sacred book cover

1st Edition

The Languages of Religion Exploring the Politics of the Sacred

Edited By Sipra Mukherjee Copyright 2018
258 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

258 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

258 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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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... Read more

Introduction

Sipra Mukherjee

　

  1. Cultures of Sound: Lineages and Languages of Sutra Recitation in Goshirakawa’s Japan

    2. Charlotte Eubanks

    　

  2. Kaqchikel Spirituality in the shade of the Catholic Doctrine

    3. Andreas Koechert and Barbara Pfeiler

    　

  3. Words Taken for Wonders: Conversion and Religious Authority among the Dalits of Colonial Chhattisgarh

    4. Chad Bauman

    　

  4. Voices, Texts and Contexts in Filipino Christianity

    5. Jose Mario C. Francisco

    　

  5. The Translations of Buddhism, from Asia to the West: Shifting Languages, Adaptive Logics, Acculturations

    6. Lionel Obadia

    　

  6. A Language 'Clearly Understanded of the People':　The Construction of an Anglo-Catholic Linguistic Identity 1850–2015

    7. Amanda Haste

    　

  7. Biblical Semiotics: The Language of Survival

    8. Gilad Elbom

    　

  8. The Būdshīshiyya’s Tower of Babel: Cultural Diversity in a Transnational Sufi Order

    9. Marta Dominguez Diaz

    　

  9. Religion for Nation? Language Policy of the Churches in the Context of the Belarusian Nation-Building

    10. Nelly Bekus

    　

  10. The Paradox of the Term ‘Democracy’ in Arabic Discourse on the Islamic Movements

    11. Kerith Miller

    　

  11. Reclaiming the Sacred: Bengali Muslim Community’s Quest for a Jatiya Identity

Epsita Halder

Biography

Sipra Mukherjee is Professor in the Department of English, West Bengal State University, India. Her research interests are religion, caste, and power. Her publications include Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit (translation of Manoranjan Byapari’s Itibritte Chandal Jeeban, 2018), Modern English Literature, 1890–1960 (2016), Special Issue on Religion and Language, International Journal of the Sociology of Language (edited, 2013), and The Calcutta Mosaic: Minority Communities of Calcutta (co-edited, 2009).

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