The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation [Hardcover]

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.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 Blor?t  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

'The profound linkage between language and religion has, until recently, lain beyond the scope of a linguistics detached from speakers' identities and cultures, and a sociological methodology wary of entering too deeply into belief systems. Tope Omoniyi has taken the lead in putting language and religion squarely on the research agenda, inspiring growing numbers of others to follow. With this book, so marvellously clear in its description and analysis, rich in ethnographic detail, and with abundant linguistic and textual examples, the emerging field moves well beyond facile categories. The studies in The Sociology of Language and Religion will be widely cited for years to come for their mature understanding of the traditions, enduring yet ever-changing - and sometimes, as with 'Holy Hip Hop', invented on the hoof - through which l3&