TY  - BOOK
AU  - Israel,Hephzibah
TI  - Religious transactions in colonial south India : language, translation, and the making of protestant identity 
T2  - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
SN  - 9780230105621 
AV  - BS315.T39 I87 2011
U1  - 220.59481109 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Bible
KW  - Tamil
KW  - Versions
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Translating
KW  - Tamil language
KW  - Style
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - India, South
KW  - History
KW  - Identification (Religion)
N1  - Machine generated contents note: -- The Terms of the Debate: Translating the Bible in Nineteenth-century India * Locating the Sacred in Terminology * Symbolic Versions: the Power of Language Registers * Prose Truth versus Poetic Fiction: Sacred Translations in Competing Genres
N2  - "Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary translations of the Bible in Tamil. Situating the Tamil Bible firmly within intersecting religious, literary and social contexts, the book offers a fresh perspective on the translated Bible as a cultural object. It focuses on conflicts in three key areas of translation--locating a sacred lexicon, the politics of "standard versions" and categorizing genres--as discursive sites within which Protestant identities have been articulated by Tamils. By widening the cultural and historical framework of the Tamil Bible, this book is the first to analyze links between language use, translation practices and caste affiliations in the articulation of Protestant identities in India"--
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