Translating wor(l)ds. Christianity across cultural boundaries. Anthropos Institut: Collectanea Instituti Anthropos 51.

Sehr gutes Ex.; neuwertig. - Englisch. - The contributions to this book address the translation of culture in the context of religion, showing that this can be a bi-directional or even multiple process because the works we analyse give evidence of how their authors resort to different cultural traditions and languages and interrelate them through translation, all trying to achieve one principal objective: that of communication across boundaries. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : God and the Goths: Translation Techniques for the Germanic Tribes. Brian Murdoch -- Maya Divinities in Christian Discourse: The Multivocalities of Colonial Mendicant Translations from Highland Guatemala. Frauke Sachse -- Christological Marathi in Cristanchi Sastrazza Cathexismo (1778). P�Eliasson -- uNkulunkulu: Bishop John William Colenso and the Contested Zulu God-name in Nineteenth-century Natal. Gwilym Colenso -- The Wanderings of Altjira, Christianity and the Translation of Sacred Words in Central Australia. David Moore -- Recontextualising the Sacraments: Diego Gonzalez Holguin's Construction of Christian Vocabulary in Colonial Peru. Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz -- Matias Ruiz Blanco's Reconceptualisation of Carib Practices and Traditions in his Conversion de Piritv de indios cvmanagotos, palenqves, y otros (1690). Roxana S�on -- Narratives of Female Genius in the Mission Field: Five Case Studies in China. Alison Jasper -- Nathan der Weise in Jerusalem: Elias Haddad's Re-appropriation of Tolerance in Mandate Palestine. Sarah Irving -- "Ou lib�?" Vodou and Haiti: Speaking the Language of Resistance, Remembrance and Freedom in the Writing of Edwidge Danticat. Fiona Darroch -- Theological Revisionism and the Recomposition of the Religio-spiritual Field. Richard H. Roberts. ISBN 9783896657947