| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: the languages of religion -- Part I Inherited language traditions -- 1 Cultures of sound: lineages and languages of sutra recitation in Goshirakawa's Japan -- 2 Kaqchikel spirituality in the shadow of Catholic doctrine -- 3 Words taken for wonders: conversion and religious authority amongst the Dalits of colonial Chhattisgarh -- 4 Voices, texts, and contexts in Filipino Christianity -- Part II Inventing language traditions -- 5 The translation of Buddhism from Asia to the West: shifting languages, adaptive logics, acculturations -- 6 A language 'clearly understanded of the people': the construction of an Anglo-Catholic linguistic identity, 1850-2015 -- 7 Biblical semiotics and the politics of survival -- 8 The Būdshīshiyya's tower of Babel: cultural diversity in a transnational Sufi Order -- Part III Political uses of religious languages -- 9 Religion for nation? Churches' language policies in Belarus -- 10 The paradox of the term 'democracy' in Arabic discourse on the Islamic movements -- 11 Reclaiming the sacred: the Bengali Muslim community's quest for a jatiya identity -- Index
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