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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">Call for Papers
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Language Policy and the Reconceptualization of
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">Religions
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">as </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
in</i> Institutions<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">The journal <i>Language Policy</i> invites papers for a thematic issue highlighting innovative research on the role of language policy in reconceptualizing religions both
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in</i> institutions. In recent years, religious language policy research (cf. Liddicoat, 2012; Omoniyi, 2010; Spolsky, 2009) has focused on the ways that religion is a central element that shapes language forms, literacy practices, language ideologies, and
language management in a range of global, national, state, family, and other interactional environments. Building upon this significant research, this thematic issue considers the complex ways that language policies shape and are shaped by communities’ ideologies
about the role (or lack thereof) religion in their lives and institutions. This special issue therefore provides a forum for analyses of how language practices, beliefs, and management intersect with religious beliefs, convictions, and ideologies at the local
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">As traditional religious practices are interpreted in novel modes and contexts in the globalizing world, it becomes necessary to reconsider the role that religion may or may not play in how communities
define themselves, and the ways in which boundaries between categories of religiosity, secularism, and spirituality are negotiated through language policies. One primary interest is in exploring how these processes of religious interpretation and negotiation
embodied in language use may take place in traditional institutions (e.g., houses of worship, religious schools) as well as in settings in which groups of people use and/or think about religion (or lack thereof) as an organizing principle for their everyday
lives. An additional area of interest is how individuals and groups negotiate, define, appropriate, and creatively employ language in ways that may counter the policies of religious institutions or nations. Lastly, we are interested in how individuals and
groups create their own religious language policies in schools, homes and communities that structure how they interact with others in both religious and nonreligious environments.
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">Submissions are invited from anthropological, sociological, linguistic, and/or historical perspectives, across methodological frameworks, and focus on both historical and contemporary sites. The issue
assumes language policy as practice, ideology and management. Potential topics include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">The boundaries/differences between and within religious groups and how these are negotiated through language policies<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">The ways that language practices may complement and/or replace other religious practices<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">How and why particular languages (e.g., endangered languages) get sacralized and the roles this may play in language maintenance and revitalization efforts<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><font size="3">The role of religious language management in missionization/evangelical Christianity, the spread of Islam, the Arab Spring, and post-communist nations<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">Those interested in contributing should submit a title and abstract (up to 300 words) to the guest editors of the thematic issue, Netta Avineri and Sharon
Avni at email: langpolicyreligion@gmail.com by May 1, 2013. After an initial abstract selection process, authors will be invited to submit full papers by November 1, 2013. All papers will undergo
</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black">double-blind peer review. Though part of a thematic issue, each paper will get reviewed individually.
</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">For information about the journal and author guidelines, see:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><font size="3">http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10993</font></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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