The Sociology of Language and Religion : Change, Conflict and Accommodation

This Book Is A Collection By Distinguished Language Reasearchers Focussing On The Most Prominent Theoretical Framework On Language And Sociology Of Religion--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction: Change, Accommodation And Conflict / Tope Omoniyi -- 2. Jewish Religious Multilingualism / Bernard Spolsky -- 3. Mauritian Muslims: Negotiating Changing Identities Through Language / Aaliya Rajah-carrim -- 4. Arabic And Sociocultural Change Among The Yoruba / Oladipo Salami -- 5. Authenticating A Tradition In Transition: Language Of Hinduism In The Us / Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande -- 6. Blorit -- Pagans' Mohawk Or Sabras' Forelock? Ideological Secularization Of Hebrew Terms In Socialist Zionist Israeli / Ghil'ad Zuckermann -- 7. Society, Language, History And Religion: A Perspective On Bangla From Linguistic Anthropology / James M. Wilce -- 8. Metaphors Of Change: Adolescent Singaporeans Switching Religion / Phyllis Ghim-lian Chew -- 9. African American Vernacular English, Religion And Ethnicity / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- 10. Holy Hip-hop, Language And Social Change / Tope Omoniyi. Edited By Tope Omoniyi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "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 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 List of Tables......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Notes on the Contributors......Page 13 1. Introduction: Change, Accommodation and Conflict......Page 16 2. Jewish Religious Multilingualism......Page 29 3. Mauritian Muslims: Negotiating Changing Identities through Language......Page 44 4. Arabic and Sociocultural Change among the Yoruba......Page 60 5. Authenticating a Tradition in Transition: Language of Hinduism in the US......Page 73 6. Blorít – Pagans’ Mohawk or Sabras’ Forelock? Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms in Socialist Zionist Israeli......Page 99 7. Society, Language, History and Religion: a Perspective on Banglafrom Linguistic Anthropology......Page 141 8. Metaphors of Change: Adolescent Singaporeans Switching Religion......Page 171 9. African American Vernacular English, Religion and Ethnicity......Page 205 10. Holy Hip-Hop, Language and Social Change......Page 220 Index......Page 250 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. The concepts of change, conflict and accommodation have been addressed in other subdisciplines of linguistics such as Social-psychology of language, traditional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication. Therefore the capacity to engage with these concepts must be a test of this emergent field of scholarship. The essays in the volume demonstrate beyond all doubt that the sociology of language and religion is able to respond in creative ways to the issues that these three concepts throw up