Gender and the Language of Religion

ISBN-13: 9781403948625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 281 str.

Allyson Jule

Opis

This book contributes to an understanding of the complex relationship of gender and language alongside religion and religious life as experienced by various religious groups around the world. The intention is to put forward current studies in the field of linguistics and explore how gender and various religions intersect with language use. The universal and diverse experience of religion provides for this unique collection of papers concerning the use of language in religious liturgy, in religious communities, and in interaction with identity. As such, the book will attract students and researchers in discourse, gender studies and religious studies.

Recenzje

'On the whole, Allyson Julé's Gender and the Language of Religion

represents a useful collection of well-written papers by scholars of

varying backgrounds (measurement and evaluation, sociolinguistics,

education psychology, language education, theoretical and applied

linguistics, and communication). It can easily become a compulsory

reading for students in various interdisciplinary studies, people

working in the relevant disciplines, and for several others who want to

broaden their knowledge on the intersection between religion,

language and gender. I enjoyed reading every paper in this collection.' - Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful, The Lingust List

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword; M.Meyerhoff Introduction: The Meeting of Gender, Language, and Religion; A.Julé PART I: GENDER, LANGUAGE PATTERNS, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT An Overview of God and Gender in Religion; M.Tekcan The Gender of God: Judeo-Christian Feminist Debates; F.Britto Asymmetries of Male/Female Representation within Arabic; S.Farwaneh American Women, Their Cursing Habits, and Religiosity; T.Jay PART II: GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Women and Men, Langauges and Relgion in Taiwan; C-c.Liao Women's Letters to the Editor: Talking Religion in a Saudi Arabian English Newspaper; H.Kniffka A Cyber-Parish: Gendered Identity Construction in an Online Episcopal Community; S.Graham Language Use and Silence as Morality: Teaching and Lecturing at an Evangelical Theology College; A.Julé The Children of God Who Wouldn't, But Had To; A.Mooney PART III: GENDER AND LANGUAGE USE IN RELIGIOUS IDENTITY Restoring the Broken Image?: The Language of Gender and Sexuality in an Ex-gay Ministry; A.Peebles "Assalamu Alaikum. Brother, I have a Right to My Opinion on This": British Islamic Women Assert Their Positions in Virtual Space; F.Bhimji "Inshallah, today there will be work": Senegalese Women Entrepreneurs in America Constructing Identities through Language Use and Islamic Practice; S.Collier Gender, Hebrew Language Acquisition, and Religious Values in Jewish High Schools in North America; D.Cohen & N.Berkowitz Speaking Our Gendered Selves: Hinduism and the Indian Woman; K.Shabadi References Index

O autorze

NANCY BERKOWITZ is an Independent Consultant in Research, Measurement and Evaluation in Massachusetts, USA FAZILA BHIMIJI is Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire, UK FRANCIS BRITTO is Professor of Linguistics at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan DEBRA COHEN is at the Hebrew University, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, USA SHARTRIYA COLLIER is at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA SAMIRA FARWANEH is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA SAGE GRAHAM is Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, USA TIMOTHY JAY is Professor of Psychology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA HANNES KNIFFKA is Professor of General and Applied Linguistics at Bonn University, Germany CHOA-CHIH LIAO is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan MIRIM MEYERHOFF is Reader in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, UK ANNABELLE MOONEY is Research Associate at Cardiff University in the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Wales, UK AMY PEEBLES is at the University of Texas at Austin, and Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, USA KALYANI SHABADI is Researcher at the Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India MÜNEVVER TEKCAN is Assistant Professor in Turkology at Kocaeli University, Turkey