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

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. TOPE OMONIYI is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Roehampton University, London, UK. His research covers language and identity in borderlands, cities, religion and popular culture, language policy and development in postcolonial Africa. He has published 'The Sociolinguistics of Borderlands: Two Nations, One Community' (2004), and the co-edited volumes 'Explorations in the Sociology ofLanguage and Religion' (2006) and 'The Sociolinguistics of Identity' (2006). INDICE: 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' - Blorít b 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, Languageand Social Change; 'T.Omoniyi' - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-51699-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés