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Translating the message : the missionary impact on culture

Title
Translating the message : the missionary impact on culture / Lamin Sanneh.
Author
Sanneh, Lamin O.
Publication
  • Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, [2009]
  • ©2009

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Description
xii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"This historical survey shows the surprising consequences of mission activities, particularly Bible translation, on African culture. Every chapter has been revised and a new one on the influence of the King James Bible has been added, drawing on the latest scholarship, adding illustrations and new tables of languages into which the Bible has been translated."--Jacket.
Series Statement
American society of missiology series ; no. 42
Uniform Title
American Society of Missiology series ; no. 42.
Subject
  • Missions > Anthropological aspects
  • Missions > History
  • Missions
  • Mission
  • Kulturwandel
  • Cultural influences
  • world
  • Subsaharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • missions
  • translation
  • language policy
  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • culture contact
  • Bible
  • Koran
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • History (form)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index.
Contents
The birth of mission : the Jewish-Gentile frontier -- Mission and the cultural assimilation of Christianity : the Hellenistic factor -- The witness of God and the vocation of nations : the Authorized ("King James") Bible and the vernacular ethos -- Mission and colonialism : vernacularization and Westernization -- Protest, reaction, and renewal : vernacular ferment in the Niger Delta -- Missionary translation in African perspective : religious and theological themes -- "Familiarity breeds faith" : first and last resorts in vernacular translation -- Translatability in Islam and Christianity with special reference to Africa : recapitulating the theme -- The vernacular principle in Catholic teaching : Vatican Council II, 1963-1965 -- Complete printed Bibles in vernacular translations.
ISBN
  • 9781570758041
  • 1570758042
LCCN
  • 2008021715
  • 99991442077
OCLC
  • ocn229342211
  • 229342211
  • SCSB-14253415
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries