Concepts of Conversion

The Politics of Missionary Scriptural Translations
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-049988-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 647 g

Reihe: Religion and Society

There has not been conducted much research in religious studies and (linguistic) anthropology analysing Protestant missionary linguistic translations. Contemporary Protestant missionary linguists employ grammars, dictionaries, literacy campaigns, and translations of the Bible (in particular the New Testament) in order to convert local cultures. The North American institutions SIL and Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) are one of the greatest scientific-evangelical missionary enterprises in the world. The ultimate objective is to translate the Bible to every language. The author has undertaken systematic research, employing comparative linguistic methodology and field interviews, for a history-of-ideas/religions and epistemologies explication of translated SIL missionary linguistic New Testaments and its premeditated impact upon religions, languages, sociopolitical institutions, and cultures. In addition to taking into account the history of missionary linguistics in America and theological principles of SIL/WBT, the author has examined the intended cultural transformative effects of Bible translations upon cognitive and linguistic systems. A theoretical analytic model of conversion and translation has been put forward for comparative research of religion, ideology, and knowledge systems.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in History of Religions; Theology; Linguisti

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pharo, Lars Kirkhusmo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Blasphemie, Ketzerei, Konversion, Abwendung von Religion

Über Autor(innen)

Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.