Description
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 Blorít – 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
