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Date: 30 Oct 2009
From:Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:Inter Journal of Sociology of Lang: CFP on Religion and Language

Hey everyone,

I found this call for papers at:
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/34605
Reprinted below:

full name / name of organization:
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
contact email:
mukherjeesipra at gmail.com
cfp categories:
cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches
journals_and_collections_of_essays
religion
CALL FOR PAPERS: This is a call for papers for the International  
Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL). The theme of this issue  
will be: “Language and Religion.” The aim of this issue is to bring  
into focus the complex cultural, social and political relationships  
between Language and Religion.  Both the terms may be interpreted  
widely to include dialects, lost languages, religious sects/cults, non- 
institutional faiths.  Topics may include, but are not limited to:

religion and literacy - how the spread of religions may be accompanied  
by spread of a language or a certain kind of literacy,
how the coming of a religion to another land changes the discourse,  
definitions of religious faith,
translations, - how cross-cultural interactions affect interpretations  
of terms when a religion is adapted from one culture to another,
language and religion impacting each other as tools of social  
mobility, or as areas of competition,
how religious conversion may be influenced by the social status of a  
language,
consequence of words and terms from the more powerful religious groups  
finding their way into secular language,
the question of the choice of language in religious practices,
religion being used to establish failing/flagging languages,
how language used in religious texts/preaching uses the social context  
- the power dynamics of nationalism, society, conversion, etc,
effects of migration leading to influence of language upon religion,  
or vice versa, altering language and religion demographics of a society,
struggles over the status of a certain language within the larger  
multi-linguistic religious group,
the discourse of secular power used by most religions (king, crown,  
battle) which has, in some cases, allied religious discourse with  
nationalistic struggles.
Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words (with ‘IJSL’ as the  
subject) along with a short CV to the editor of this issue Sipra  
Mukherjee (mukherjeesipra at gmail.com , andsipram at yahoo.com) by 10th  
Dec, 2009.  Decisions regarding relevant proposals will be completed  
by 20th Dec., 2009. Completed papers of approx 10,000 -12,000 words  
will be required by 1st August, 2010 to be considered for  
inclusion.The IJSL is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.  
The General Editor of IJSL is Joshua A. Fishman and the Associate  
Editor, Ofelia Garcia.



Hope someone finds this useful,
Alex Magidow (not affiliated with IJSL)


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