The sociology of language and religion : change, conflict and accommodation

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The sociology of language and religion : change, conflict and accommodation

edited by Tope Omoniyi

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Change, Conflict and Accommodation
  • T.Omoniyi Jewish Religious Multilingualism
  • B.Spolsky Mauritian Muslims: Negotiating Changing Identities Through Language
  • A.Rajah-Carrim Arabic and Socio-Cultural Change Among the Yoruba
  • O.Salami Authenticating a Tradition in Transition: Language of Hinduism in the U.S
  • R.Pandharipande Blorit - Pagans' Mohawk or Sabras' Forelock?: Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms in Socialist Zionist Israeli
  • A.Yadin & G.Zuckermann Society, Language, History, and Religion: A Perspective on Bangla from Linguistic Anthropology
  • J.Wilce Metaphors of Change: Adolescent Singaporeans Switching Religion
  • P.Ghim-Lian Chew African American Vernacular English, Religion and Ethnicity
  • N.Kamwangamalu Holy Hip-Hop, Language and Social Change
  • T.Omoniyi Index

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