Description:This collection of studies from around the world connects applied linguistic research with the complexities of gender and religion. The contributors explore the ways in which women in various religious situations use language to reveal and to create a religious identity of their own, and how language itself is used to position women in particular roles. The studies come from the USA, Nigeria, Brazil, Thailand, Canada, the UK and Poland.The varieties of engagements explored include on-line churches, small churches, emigrant experience, theological conversations and religious practice experienced in and through the media. Readers in applied linguistics, anthropology or religious studies, who are interested in language and its power in creating lived experience, will find this book full of intriguing and illuminating connectionsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse. To get started finding Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
237
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Release
2010
ISBN
128128355X
Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse
Description: This collection of studies from around the world connects applied linguistic research with the complexities of gender and religion. The contributors explore the ways in which women in various religious situations use language to reveal and to create a religious identity of their own, and how language itself is used to position women in particular roles. The studies come from the USA, Nigeria, Brazil, Thailand, Canada, the UK and Poland.The varieties of engagements explored include on-line churches, small churches, emigrant experience, theological conversations and religious practice experienced in and through the media. Readers in applied linguistics, anthropology or religious studies, who are interested in language and its power in creating lived experience, will find this book full of intriguing and illuminating connectionsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse. To get started finding Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.