LINGUIST List 25.1097
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Mar 05 2014
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Sociolinguistics/Finland
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Date: 05-Mar-2014
From: Andrey Rosowsky
<a.rosowsky
sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Transnational
Religious Communities and Technology
Colloquium
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Full Title: Transnational Religious Communities
and Technology Colloquium
Date: 15-Jun-2014 - 18-Jun-2014
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Contact Person: Andrey Rosowsky
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2014
Meeting Description:
This colloquium is organised by the Sociology
of Language and Religion (SLR) network. Other
contributors are Bernard Spolsky, Tope Omoniyi,
Christian Muench, Oladipo Salami, Ana Souza,
Laura Niemi and Andrey Rosowsky.
Colloquium Description:
Multilingualism is on the rise in cities around
the world, as is the presence of religious
communities from different cultural and
linguistic contexts. While religions have
always played an important role in immigrant as
well as in indigenous communities, so have
languages within these religious contexts. Yet,
the pace and rhythm of migratory movements and
consequent cultural and religious diversity in
erstwhile traditionally homogeneous communities
have accelerated significantly and made
religious communities more dynamic, more
volatile, but also more virtual and responsive
to the challenges of modern life. Transnational
religious communities and their language
practices have been studied from many angles,
but little can be anticipated in terms of the
practices of religious communities when it
comes to modern technology. New communication
technologies represent a huge space, for
example, for interaction of immigrants with
their home as well as with their religious
communities across the planet. Technology
provides global devotees with the chance to
interact, maintain relationships, share
experiences and practice their faith
individually or collectively in the language of
their choice, with virtual communities or even
a local community of their own. The virtual
presence of the languages used in such
religious community practices is of great
interest to the sociology of language and
religion (SLR). It seems time for researchers
to investigate the interface of language,
religion and technology. This panel focuses on
the use of technology and religious practices
in multilingual contexts around the world.
Christian Muench, University of Aachen
Global organizations and local religious
communities: Spanish-speaking groups in
evangelical churches in New York City
Laura Niemi, University of Helsinki
Merging the urban and the religious:
Constructing social styles in a Christian youth
TV show
Tope Omoniyi, University of Roehampton
Love World Ministry's monthly communion service
as a technologized faith practice
Andrey Rosowsky, University of Sheffield
Virtual allegiance: Online baya'a practices
within a worldwide Sufi Order
Oladipo Salami, Obafemi Awolowo University
Ifa and the virtual world
Bernard Spolsky, Former Director of the
Language Policy Research Center, Bar-Ilan
University
'And teach them diligently': The development of
Jewish teaching on the internet
Ana Souza, Institute of Education, London
Technology and language shift: The case of two
Brazilian faith settings
Call for Papers:
Transnational religious communities and
technology colloquium
Due to circumstances, we suddenly have a space
for a paper on this eight-paper colloquium to
be held under the auspices of the
Sociolinguistics Symposium 20 in Jyväskylä,
Finland in June (15-18) this year. The exact
day for the colloquium has yet to be finalised
by the symposium organisers.
If you can present a paper at our colloquium,
we would need an abstract by the end of March.
Interested parties should contact Andrey
Rosowsky (a.rosowsky
sheffield.ac.uk), not the symposium
organisers, in the first instance.
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