Translating Christianity (Studies in Church History) - Hardcover

 
9781108419246: Translating Christianity (Studies in Church History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1108419240 ISBN 13: 9781108419246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This volume brings together scholars to explore the challenges of translating Christianity. Christianity has been the impulse behind the creation of more dictionaries and grammars of the world's languages than any other force in history. More people pray and worship in more languages in Christianity than in any other religion. It is a religion without a revealed language; a faith characterized by 'the triumph of its translatability'. Christianity is also a translated religion in a very different sense. Many of its ritual practices have been predicated on the translation of material objects, such as relics. Their movement in time and space reveals shifting lines of power and influence in illuminating ways. Translation can be understood not only linguistically and physically but also in ecclesiastical and metaphorical terms, for instance, in the handing on of authority from one place or person to another, or the appropriation of rituals in different contexts.

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Book Description

'Translating Christianity' is the theme of Studies in Church History 53. More people pray and worship in more languages in Christianity than in any other religion. This volume brings together scholars to explore the challenges of translating Christianity in linguistic, physical, ecclesiastical and metaphorical terms.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108419240
ISBN 13 
9781108419246
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
494
Editor
Ditchfield Simon, Methuen Charlotte, Spicer Andrew