TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee, Sipra, 1966- TI - Languages of religion : exploring the politics of the sacred SN - 9781138363748 (hbk.) U1 - 210.14 LAN PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Religion and politics KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Political participation KW - Political psychology KW - Political science--Philosophy KW - Political sociology KW - Religion KW - Religion and sociology N1 - Rs.995/- TBH86/207; Introduction: the languages of religion / Sipra Mukherjee -- Cultures of sound: lineages and languages of sutra recitation in Goshirakawa's Japan / Charlotte Eubanks -- Kaqchikel spirituality in the shadow of catholic doctrine / Andreas Koechert, Barbara Pfeiler -- Words taken for wonders: conversion and religious authority amongst the Dalits of colonial Chhattisgarh / Chad M. Bauman -- Voices, texts, and contexts in Filipino Christianity / Jose Mario C. Francisco -- The translation of Buddhism from Asia to the west: shifting languages, adaptive logics, acculturations / Lionel Obadia -- A language 'clearly understanded of the people': the construction of an Anglo-Catholic linguistic identity, 1850-2015 / Amanda J. Haste -- Biblical semiotics and the politics of survival / Gilad Elbom -- The Būdshīshiyya's tower of Babel: cultural diversity in a transnational Sufi Order / Marta Dominguez Diaz -- Religion for nation? Churches' language policies in Belarus / Nelly Bekus -- The paradox of the term 'democracy' in Arabic discourse on the Islamic movements / Kerith Miller -- Reclaiming the sacred: the Bengali Muslim community's quest for a jatiya identity / Epsita Halder ER -