Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion

Hephzibah Israel is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the author of Religious Transactions in Colonial South India: Language, Translation and the Making of Protestant Identity (2011).

'This Handbook marks a watershed in the study of translation and the sacred. Bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, the volume offers an unprecedented array of approaches to a field that has traditionally been dominated by the Christian Bible. The chapters treat various faith traditions, interpreting as well as translation, new technologies, intersemiotic translation, as well as previously unexplored contexts of translation. In its breadth and sophistication, the handbook makes an enormous and very welcome contribution to Translation Studies, Religious Studies, and a host of related disciplines.'Brian James Baer, Professor of Russian and Translation Studies, Kent State University, USA 'Finally, we have a much-needed single volume on the complexity and beauty of translating sacred texts. Written by the finest scholars in the field,…this volume will be required by anyone faced with the awesome task of sacred translation, and the …significance of translated materials.'Mark Juergensmeyer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies, Sociology, and affiliate of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and co-translator of Songs of the Saints of India.

• List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Hephzibah IsraelPART I Disciplinary Frameworks 1 Religion, Translation, Semantics Mark Q. Gardiner and Steven Engler2 Untranslatability and the Canonical Text Theo Hermans3 Translating the Sacred Books of the East: Friedrich Max Müller and the Orient Arie L. Molendijk4 ‘An Equivocal Position’: Anthropology, Evans- Pritchard, and the Spirit of Translation Michael Edwards5 The Religion of Translation Gil AnidjarPART II Concepts, Approaches and Methods 6 Interface of the Deep: Design Cues for Engaging New Media and Machine Translation with Religious Scriptures Timothy Beal7 Interpreting and Religion Olgierda Furmanek8 Collaborative Translation and the Transmission of Buddhism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Robert Neather9 Women, Sacred Texts, Translation Rim Hassen and Adriana Şerban10 Paratexts and Sacred Translation: The Noble Qur’an in English Yazid Haroun11 On Mantras and Other 'Untranslatable' Forms of Religious Language 1Robert A. YellePART III Inter- semiotic Translation and Religion: Materiality, Performance and Experiencing the Sacred 12 Bodies of Words: Translating Sacred Text into Sacred Architecture in East Asian Buddhism Halle O’Neal and Paul Harrison13 Conceptional and Intersemiotic Transpositions: Between Autochthonous Latin American Religions Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo14 Translating Sikh Scripture and Sikh Lifeworlds Arvind- Pal Singh Mandair and Puninder Singh15 Materializing Jesus’ Nazareth: Translation as Imagineering James S. BieloPART IV Translation and Competing Religious Cultures 16 From Sumerian into Akkadian: Translations, Sacred Texts and Canonicity in Ancient Mesopotamia Stefano Seminara17 Greek Texts in Arabic Translations: Quranic Language, Christian Translators, and Muslim Audiences Elvira Wakelnig18 Jesuit Translation: The Ciceronian Legacy Karen Bennett19 Sacred Tongue, Translated People: Translation in the Jewish Tradition Naomi Seidman20 Translation and the Construction of Conversion Narratives: Language Strategies of Russian Converts to Islam Gulnaz SibgatullinaPART V Religions in New Contexts: Translation and Construction 21 Straddling the Himalayas: Translating Buddhism into Chinese Daniel Boucher22 Bahá’Í Translation in Early Twentieth- Century China: A Historical Survey and Critical Issues HE Quinghui and WAN Zhaoyuan23 Translating Sacred Scriptures: The Śvetāmbara Jain Tradition Nalini Balbir24 Grammar and Art of Translation as Expressions of Muslim Faith: Translational Practices in West Africa Dmitry BondarevPART VI Translating Sacred Texts: Critical Perspectives from Translators 25 Simultaneous Interpreting in a Pentecostal Church: Encountering the Sacred Sari Hokkanen26 Reflecting Infinities: Translating the Zohar’s Sacred Revelations David Solomon27 The Ramayana in Translation Philip Lutgendorf28 Translating Sikh Scripture: Rebounding Sound and Sense Nikky- Guninder Kaur SinghIndex