Moving Words: Christian Language and the Modern World |
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Authors: | Adam Harr |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, St. Lawrence Universityaharr@stlawu.edu |
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Abstract: | Within the anthropology of Christianity, much attention has been paid to the convergence of Christianity with modern understandings of language. In this essay, I review scholarship that traces the historical connections between modern and Christian views of language, particularly in British colonial attacks on Hindu language practices, and I examine two recent ethnographies that offer different vantage points on the variety of ways in which contemporary Christians use language in a self-consciously modern way. |
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Keywords: | anthropology of Christianity colonialism language ideology modernity |
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