Passwords to paradise
Subtitle: how languages have re-invented world religions
By: Nicholas Oster
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781620405154
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Translating and interpreting; Religious aspects; Language and languages
Other titles: How languages have re-invented world religions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The great bonds of humanity : languages and faiths; title: Scattered jades : a Mexican Virgin Mary; title: On ass's lip, and a great conveyance : the Buddha taken north; title: "Fine words are not trusty" : Aryan vehicle on road into Chinese; title: "To deep of lip and heavy of tongue" : from Galilee to the Gentile; title: "In this sign you will conquer" : chosen by emperors; title: "Every man heard ... his own language" : one Christ, many tongues?; title: "Proclaiming the good news" : with Christ into northern Europe; title: "Adze-headed across the sea" : white martyrdom; title: The Savior as our chieftain : the Gospel of the war band; title: "Listen, all ye Slavs" : orthodoxy rejects trilingualism; title: Conversion by the book : the faith enforced in Latin America; title: Gloria tlatoani : Christian literature among the indios; title: Extirpación de idiomas? : asserting monolingualism; title: "Back to the sources" : God's word and translation; title: God and language beyond imitation : one enough; title: The enduring marks of language conversions.