The Sociology of Language and Religion [electronic resource] : Change, Conflict and Accommodation /
Omoniyi, Tope.author.
Omoniyi, Tope,editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction: Change, Accommodation and Conflict; 2. Jewish Religious Multilingualism; 3. Mauritian Muslims: Negotiating Changing Identities through Language; 4. Arabic and Sociocultural Change among the Yoruba; 5. Authenticating a Tradition in Transition: Language of Hinduism in the US; 6. Blorít - Pagans' Mohawk or Sabras' Forelock? Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms in Socialist Zionist Israeli; 7. Society, Language, History and Religion: a Perspective on Banglafrom Linguistic Anthropology
8. Metaphors of Change: Adolescent Singaporeans Switching Religion9. African American Vernacular English, Religion and Ethnicity; 10. Holy Hip-Hop, Language and Social Change; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociolinguistics.
Culture.
Anthropology.
Religion.
Ethnology.
Religion and sociology.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology of Culture.
Anthropology.
Religious Studies, general.
Cultural Anthropology.
Social Aspects of Religion.