Sacred languages of the world : an introduction /: an introduction. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian P. Bennett.
• Authors: Bennett, Brian P
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 What Exactly Is a Sacred Language?; Sacred Choices; Who Says It's a Sacred Language?; Historical Relics?; Religious revivals; Neotraditionalist movements; Technological innovations; Globalizing spiritualities; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2 Sacred Languages, Past and Present; The Global Language System; A Very Short History of the World; Ancient; Axial; Premodern; Modern; Postmodern; Bits and Pieces; The Arabic Scriptworld; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3 Not Dead Yet:: Latin as Test Case Framing Sacred LanguagesBeliefs; Practices; Institutions; Communities; Dead or Alive?; References; Further Reading; Chapter 4 Beliefs about Sacred Languages; Powerful Beliefs; Revelatory; Interventionist; Vehicular; Cultural; Good Vibrations; The sonic dimension; The graphic dimension; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5 Practices:: Religious, Political, Artistic; How to Do Things with Sacred Languages; Liturgical practices; Somatological practices; Thaumaturgical practices; Discursive practices; Political practices; Artistic practices; References; Further Reading Chapter 6 Learning a Sacred LanguageThe ABCs of Faith; Restricted Literacy; What, Who, Why, and How; Ritual repetition; Targeted study; State involvement; References; Further Reading; Chapter 7 Communities and Controversies; United We Stand; Liturgical; Visual; Conversational; Divided We Fall; Church Slavonic; Avestan; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8 Borderlines:: Sacred Languages, Fundamentalism, and Globalization; The World of Sanskrit; My Sweet Lord; (Almost) Anything Goes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Codices; Code-Switching ; Codifications; Secret Codes Codes of ConductDecoding; Insider Codes; Legacy Codes?; Unicode; References; Index; EULA
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 401/.47; Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- History; Sociolinguistics -- History; Sociolinguistics; Comparative linguistics; RELIGION / Comparative Religion; Comparative linguistics; Language and languages -- Religious aspects; Sociolinguistics; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118970751; 1118970756; 9781118970768; 1118970764; 9781119234661; 1119234662
• Related ISBNs: 9781118970782
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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