The languages of religion: exploring the politics of the sacred
Introduction: the languages of religion / Sipra Mukherjee -- Cultures of sound: lineages and languages of sutra recitation in Goshirakawa's Japan / Charlotte Eubanks -- Kaqchikel spirituality in the shadow of catholic doctrine / Andreas Koechert, Barbara Pfeiler -- Words taken for wonders: conv...
| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: the languages of religion / Sipra Mukherjee -- Cultures of sound: lineages and languages of sutra recitation in Goshirakawa's Japan / Charlotte Eubanks -- Kaqchikel spirituality in the shadow of catholic doctrine / Andreas Koechert, Barbara Pfeiler -- Words taken for wonders: conversion and religious authority amongst the Dalits of colonial Chhattisgarh / Chad M. Bauman -- Voices, texts, and contexts in Filipino Christianity / Jose Mario C. Francisco -- The translation of Buddhism from Asia to the west: shifting languages, adaptive logics, acculturations / Lionel Obadia -- A language 'clearly understanded of the people': the construction of an Anglo-Catholic linguistic identity, 1850-2015 / Amanda J. Haste -- Biblical semiotics and the politics of survival / Gilad Elbom -- The Būdshīshiyya's tower of Babel: cultural diversity in a transnational Sufi Order / Marta Dominguez Diaz -- Religion for nation? Churches' language policies in Belarus / Nelly Bekus -- The paradox of the term 'democracy' in Arabic discourse on the Islamic movements / Kerith Miller -- Reclaiming the sacred: the Bengali Muslim community's quest for a jatiya identity / Epsita Halder. |
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| ISBN: | 0429880073 |