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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India : Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity / by H. Israel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Israel, Hephzibah, 1971-
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, 2945-6649
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Social history.
- Christianity.
- Imperialism.
- Asian History.
- History of Religion.
- Social History.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- History of South Asia.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian History.
- History of Religion.
- Social History.
- Christianity.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- History of South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary translations of the Bible in Tamil. Situating the Tamil Bible firmly within intersecting religious, literary, and social contexts, Hephzibah Israel offers a fresh perspective on the translated Bible as an object of cultural transfer. She focuses on conflicts in three key areas of translation - locating a sacred lexicon, the politics of language registers and "standard versions," and competing generic categories - as discursive sites within which Protestant identities have been articulated by Tamils. By widening the cultural and historical framework of the Tamil Bible, this book is the first to analyze the links connecting language use, translation practices, and caste affiliations in the articulation of Protestant identities in India.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- The Terms of the Debate: Translating the Bible in Nineteenth-century India * Locating the Sacred in Terminology * Symbolic Versions: the Power of Language Registers * Prose Truth versus Poetic Fiction: Sacred Translations in Competing Genres.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613266316
- 9780230105621
- 9781283266314
- 1283266318
- 9780230120129
- 0230120121
- 9780230347175
- 0230347177
- OCLC:
- 751696272
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