Translating religion and politics

[Kier Salmon]

Don't I remember that there is a book tackling the difficulties  
priests had in the early years in "La cuenca de Mexico" trying to  
translate concepts such as "sin" and "purgatory" and trying to shoe- 
horn meanings into words in nahuatl?  I'll try to find that book's  
citation if I can get it to bubble up in my mind.


On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Galen Brokaw wrote:

> Richard,
>
> For Quechua, Alan Durston has a recent book titled _Pastoral  
> Quechua_ that discusses the creation of a standard Quechua by  
> Spanish priests. He argues that the dialect of Quechua that became  
> the colonial lingua franca in the Andes never existed as such  
> previously. Of course, they weren't translating the bible back then,  
> but they were producing other kinds of religious documents.
>
> Galen
>
>
>
> On 2/10/2011 6:09 PM, Richard Durkan wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of any studies of or specialists in the history of  
>> Bible translation into the indigenous languages of the Americas and  
>> the influence such work had on developing written languages and  
>> standardized language, as in other parts of the world?
>>
>> I would also be interested in the experience of translators of  
>> other 'sacred texts', whether religious or political (eg the Quran  
>> or the Marxist canon - Marx, Lenin, Mao etc), into vernacular  
>> languages and what linguistic and cultural problems they  
>> encountered by way of comparison and contrast with the Christian  
>> experience.
>>
>> Richard Durkan
>>
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