TY - BOOK
T1 - Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion
AU - Pandharipande, Rajeshwari Vijay
AU - David, Maya Khemlani
AU - Ebsworth, Miriam Eisenstein
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Rajeshwari Vijay Pandharipande, Maya Khemlani David, Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth and the authors of individual chapters. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This volume addresses the question 'What role does religion play in the maintenance, revival and/or shift, of languages?' The chapters in this volume explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and the maintenance, revival and/or shift of languages in different multilingual multicultural contexts, under diverse sociopolitical conditions, at different points in time. The 12 chapters cover data from Algeria, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK, USA and Uganda and discuss the impact of context, ideology, identity and education on the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and some religions closely associated with China such as Confucianism and Taoism, and their respective languages and varieties of language in these regions. The languages discussed by the writers in this volume include Arabic, English, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamazight and Yoruba.
AB - This volume addresses the question 'What role does religion play in the maintenance, revival and/or shift, of languages?' The chapters in this volume explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and the maintenance, revival and/or shift of languages in different multilingual multicultural contexts, under diverse sociopolitical conditions, at different points in time. The 12 chapters cover data from Algeria, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK, USA and Uganda and discuss the impact of context, ideology, identity and education on the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and some religions closely associated with China such as Confucianism and Taoism, and their respective languages and varieties of language in these regions. The languages discussed by the writers in this volume include Arabic, English, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamazight and Yoruba.
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U2 - 10.21832/PANDHA6669
DO - 10.21832/PANDHA6669
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85111248134
SN - 9781788926669
BT - Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion
PB - Channel View Publications
ER -