TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amara,Muhammad
AU  - Chew,Phyllis Ghim-Lian
AU  - David,Maya Khemlani
AU  - Ebsworth,Miriam Eisenstein
AU  - Eisenstein Ebsworth,Miriam
AU  - Goldberg,Scott J.
AU  - Kaur,Sheena
AU  - McLellan,James
AU  - Mostari,Hind Amel
AU  - Openjuru,George Ladaah
AU  - Pandharipande,Rajeshwari V.
AU  - Pandharipande,Rajeshwari Vijay
AU  - Rosowsky,Andrey
AU  - Said-Sirhan,Yurni
AU  - Salami,Oladipo
AU  - Souza,Ana
AU  - Spolsky,Bernard
AU  - Wildstein,Tristin
TI  - Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion
SN  - 9781788926669
AV  - BL60 .L3255 2020
U1  - 306.44 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - language and religion
KW  - language and religious communities
KW  - language maintenance
KW  - language revitalisation
KW  - language shift
KW  - religion and Society
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The Decline of the Vernacular in the Chinese Religion in Singapore --; 3. Singing in My Language(s): How Religious Verse and Song Contribute to Minority Language Maintenance --; 4. The Role of Islam in the Language Maintenance of the Malay Muslims in Singapore --; 5. The Role of Religion in Written Language Maintenance and Shift in Uganda --; 6. Faith and Language Maintenance in Transnational Places of Worship: Brazilian Christian Settings in London --; 7. Language Shift but Religious and Cultural Maintenance: A Study of the Punjabi Sikh Community in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia --; 8. Does Religion Promote as well as Retard Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from Hinduism and Buddhism --; 9. Religion and Education in the Preservation of Hebrew and Other Jewish Language Varieties --; 10. The Role of the Islamic Movement in Maintaining Standard Arabic in Israel --; 11. Development of Hebrew/ English Biliteracy in a Jewish Day School: Issues of Language and Identity --; 12. Islamic Religious Education, Identity and the Arabic Language Among University Students in Southwestern Nigeria --; 13. Religion and Algerian Languages in the Education System --; 14. Epilogue --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This volume addresses the question ‘What role does religion play in the maintenance, revival and/or shift, of languages?’ The chapters in this volume explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and the maintenance, revival and/or shift of languages in different multilingual multicultural contexts, under diverse sociopolitical conditions, at different points in time. The 12 chapters cover data from Algeria, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK, USA and Uganda and discuss the impact of context, ideology, identity and education on the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and some religions closely associated with China such as Confucianism and Taoism, and their respective languages and varieties of language in these regions. The languages discussed by the writers in this volume include Arabic, English, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamazight and Yoruba
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788926676
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781788926676
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781788926676/original
ER  -