Woods Medium or Message?

Language and Faith in Ethnic Churches
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-724-4
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights

What is the role of language in ethnic churches? This new and much needed account of the Australian experience examines the issues faced by sixteen congregations, together representing different periods of Australia’s migration history, as well as different languages, cultural backgrounds and Christian denominations. Drawing on the rich data provided by the study, the concept of “language–religion ideology” is developed to describe the nature of the relationship between language and religion which is exhibited by a denomination, with far-reaching implications for multilingual and multicultural societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Anya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Series Editor’s Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Establishing the Context of the Study

2 Language–Religion Ideology in an Ethnic Church Context

3 Views from the Pulpit

4 Case Study 1: The Latvian Church

5 Case Study 2: The Indonesian Church

6 Some General Trends

7 Towards a New Framework

Appendix: Summary Tables of Data Gathered from Interviews with Ministers

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Woods, Anya
Anya Woods is an Honorary Fellow in the Research Unit for Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Communication which is located in the School of Languages at the University of Melbourne, and is also engaged on an occasional basis in projects with the Linguistics Program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.