Tope Omoniyi 
The Sociology of Language and Religion [PDF ebook] 
Change, Conflict and Accommodation

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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.

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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

About the author

PHYLLIS GHIM-LIAN CHEW is Associate Professor, English Language Methodology and Sociolinguistics, Nanyang Technological University, Japan NKONKO M. KAMWANGAMALU is Professor of Linguistics, Howard University, USA RAJESHWARI V. PANDHARIPANDE is Professor of Linguistics and Religious Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA AALIYA RAJAH-CARRIM is a sociolinguist actively involved in disseminating her research on Mauritian Creole among lay people in Mauritius DIPO SALAMI is Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria BERNARD SPOLSKY is Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, Israel JIM WILCE is Professor of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, USA AZZAN YADIN is Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Rutgers University, USA GHIL’AD ZUCKERMANN is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in linguistics at The University of Queensland, Australia

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 241 ● ISBN 9780230304710 ● File size 1.6 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4968973 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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