Sociology of Language and Religion

• Utgivningsdatum: 2010-01-01
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 327 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 241
• Upplaga: 10001
• Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781349354764

• Kulturvetenskap
• Antropologi
• Språkvetenskap och lingvistik
• Sociologi

PHYLLIS GHIM-LIAN CHEW is Associate Professor, English Language Methodology and Sociolinguistics, Nanyang Technological University, Japan NKONKO M. KAMWANGAMALU is Professor of Linguistics, Howard University, USARAJESHWARI V. PANDHARIPANDE is Professor of Linguistics and Religious Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USAAALIYA RAJAH-CARRIM is a sociolinguist actively involved in disseminating her research on Mauritian Creole among lay people in MauritiusDIPO SALAMI is Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, NigeriaBERNARD SPOLSKY is Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, IsraelJIM WILCE is Professor of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, USAAZZAN YADIN is Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Rutgers University, USAGHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in linguistics at The University of Queensland, Australia

'The profound linkage between language and religion has, until recently, lain beyond the scope of a linguistics detached from speakers' identities and cultures, and a sociological methodology wary of entering too deeply into belief systems. Tope Omoniyi has taken the lead in putting language and religion squarely on the research agenda, inspiring growing numbers of others to follow. With this book, so marvellously clear in its description and analysis, rich in ethnographic detail, and with abundant linguistic and textual examples, the emerging field moves well beyond facile categories. The studies in The Sociology of Language and Religion will be widely cited for years to come for their mature understanding of the traditions, enduring yet ever-changing - and sometimes, as with 'Holy Hip Hop', invented on the hoof - through which people interpret themselves and others within two infinite unfathomables: the universe of their beliefs, and the languages and discourses in which they are constructed.' - John E. Joseph, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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