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Tables of Contents for Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Preface
xxxi
General Introduction
1
2
Section I. Language in the Context of Particular Religions
Introduction
3
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
African Traditional Religions
4
2
I. A. Phiri
Ancient Near Eastern Religions
6
3
W. G. E. Watson
Australian Aboriginal Religions
9
2
C. H. Berndt
R. M. Berndt
Baha'ism
11
1
S. Lambden
G. Lambden
British Israelites
12
1
W. L. Ingram
Buddhism, Chinese
13
2
D. Lancashire
Buddhism, Indian
15
1
S. Collins
Buddhism, Japanese
16
1
I. Reader
Buddhism in Southeast Asia
17
1
G. Condominas
Buddhism, Tibetan
18
1
P. M. Williams
Buddhism in the West
19
1
J. Cresswell
Candomble
20
1
C. H. Ribeiro Dos Santos
Cargo Cults
21
1
K. O. L. Burridge
Caribbean Syncretistic Religions 1: Cuban Santeria and Haitian Voodoo
22
1
C. H. Ribeiro Dos Santos
Caribbean Syncretistic Religions 2: Jamaican Cumina and Trinidadian Shango
23
1
C. H. Ribeiro Dos Santos
Cao Dai
24
1
C. T. Nguyen
Celtic Religion
25
2
H. Moisl
Christian Science
27
1
D. Treacy-Cole
Christianity in Africa
27
3
A. Hastings
Christianity in East Asia
30
3
J. H. Grayson
Christianity in Europe
33
2
J. F. A. Sawyer
Christianity in Iran and Central Asia
35
2
N. Sims-Williams
Christianity in the Near East
37
2
J. N. Birdsall
Christianity in South Asia
39
2
C. Shackle
Christianity in Southeast Asia
41
1
E. U. Kratz
Confucianism
42
4
L. Pfister
Ecstatic Religion
46
2
W. S. Bainbridge
Etruscan Religion
48
1
L. Aigner-Foresti
The Family (Children of God)
49
1
W. S. Bainbridge
Gnosticism
49
1
A. Crislip
Greek Religion
50
1
R. C. T. Parker
Hare Krishna Movement
51
1
K. R. Valpey
Hinduism
52
3
D. H. Killingley
Islam in Africa
55
2
L. Sanneh
Islam in Central Asia
57
2
S. Akiner
Islam in East Asia
59
1
J. H. Grayson
Islam in the Near East
60
2
J. N. Mattock
Islam in South Asia
62
3
C. Shackle
Islam in Southeast Asia
65
1
E. U. Kratz
Jainism
66
1
P. Dundas
Jehovah's Witnesses
67
1
W. S. Bainbridge
Judaism
68
4
M. Weitzman
Kwanzaa
72
1
W. S. Bainbridge
Macumba
73
1
C. H. Ribeiro Dos Santos
Manichaeism
74
1
S. N. C. Lieu
Melanesian Religions
75
2
G. W. Trompf
Native American Religions, North
77
1
A. Hultkrantz
Native American Religions, South
78
2
P. P. Arnold
New Religions, Japan
80
1
I. Reader
New Religious Movements
81
2
W. S. Bainbridge
Quakerism
83
2
M. P. Graves
Rastafarianism
85
1
J. C. Beal
Roman Religion
86
1
J. G. F. Powell
Scientology
87
1
W. S. Bainbridge
Seventh Day Adventist Church
88
1
W. S. Bainbridge
Shamanism
89
1
C. E. Hardman
Shinto
89
2
I. Reader
Sikhism
91
1
C. Shackle
Spiritualism
92
1
J. Algeo
Taoism
93
2
D. Lancashire
Theosophy
95
1
J. Algeo
Zoroastrianism
95
4
A. V. Williams
Section II. Sacred Texts and Translations
Introduction
99
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Apocrypha, Buddhist
100
1
L. Lancaster
Apocrypha, Christian
100
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Bible
101
3
J. C. L. Gibson
Bible Translations, Ancient Versions
104
2
T. Muraoka
Bible Translations, Modern Period
106
9
P. C. Steine
Buddhist Canons: Translations
115
3
L. R. Lancaster
Cairo Genizah
118
1
S. C. Reif
Chinese: Translation of Theological Terms
118
4
L. Pfister
Dead Sea Scrolls
122
1
T. H. Lim
English Bible
122
3
G. Hammond
Granth
125
1
C. Shackle
Hindu Sacred Texts
126
1
J. L. Brockington
Mormon, Book of
127
1
A. Cunningham
Nag Hammadi Texts
128
1
A. Crislip
Pali Canon
129
1
I. Onians
Panjabi (Gurmukhi) Sacred Texts
129
1
C. Shackle
Peshitta
130
1
A. G. Salvesen
Pseudepigrapha
131
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Qur'an
131
2
I. R. Netton
Qur'an: Translations
133
1
T. J. Winter
Qur'an: Versions
134
1
T. J. Winter
Rosetta Stone
134
2
J. D. Ray
Septuagint
136
1
T. Muraoka
Talmud
137
1
G. Khan
Targum
138
1
G. Khan
Translation: History
138
12
L. G. Kelly
Vulgate
150
3
T. O'Loughlin
Section III. Religious Languages and Scripts
Introduction
153
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Akkadian
154
1
J. G. MacQueen
Alphabet: Development
154
7
J. F. Healy
Ancient Egyptian and Coptic
161
1
J. D. Ray
Arabic
162
4
C. Holes
Arabic and Spanish: Linguistic Contacts
166
2
L. P. Harvey
Arabic Script: Adaptation for Other Languages
168
1
J. N. Mattock
Aramaic, Jewish
169
2
M. Sokoloff
Armenian
171
1
B. G. Hewitt
Avestan
172
1
P. G. Kreyenbroek
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
173
1
P. Dundas
Byzantine Greek
173
1
Archimandrite Ephrem
Chinese
174
5
B. Arendrup
Church Latin
179
1
B. I. Knott
Church Slavonic
180
1
C. M. MacRobert
Devanagari
181
2
C. Shackle
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
183
3
J. D. Ray
Garshuni
186
1
J. F. Coakley
Ge`ez
187
1
S. Uhlig
Georgian
188
1
B. G. Hewitt
Gothic
189
1
J. M. Y. Simpson
Gurmukhi
190
1
C. Shackle
Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish
191
3
J. F. Elwode
Korean
194
2
J. H. Grayson
Ogam
196
1
J. M. Y. Simpson
Old Church Slavonic
197
1
C. M. MacRobert
Pahlavi
198
1
A. V. Williams
Palaeography
199
7
K. A. Lowe
Pali
206
1
K. R. Norman
Panjabi
207
1
C. Shackle
Pashto
208
1
P. G. Kreyenbroek
Persian
209
1
J. Ardehali
Phoenician/Punic
210
1
W. G. E. Watson
Runes
211
3
A. King
Samaritan
214
1
A. D. Crown
Sanskrit
215
3
J. L. Brockington
Semitic Languages
218
2
W. G. E. Watson
Semitic Scripts
220
6
A. Gaur
Syriac, Christian
226
2
S. P. Brock
Tamil
228
3
R. E. Asher
Tibetan
231
2
P. Denwood
Ugaritic
233
1
W. G. E. Watson
Yiddish
234
3
D. Katz
Section IV. Special Language Uses
Introduction
237
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Allegory
238
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
American Spirituals
238
1
W. Best
Archaism
239
1
K. Wales
Blasphemy
240
1
W. S. F. Pickering
Blessings
241
1
B. G. Szuchewycz
Channeling
242
1
J. Algeo
Copying
243
1
I. Reader
Cursing
244
1
P. J. Collins
Dharani (root dhr, `to hold')
244
1
I. Astley
Euphemism
245
1
W. D. Redfern
Evangelism
246
2
W. S. Bainbridge
Feminism
248
1
D. Sawyer
Glossolalia
249
1
C. G. Williams
Hwyl
250
1
D. D. Morgan
Hymns
251
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Incantations
252
1
J. Pearson
Islamic Calligraphy
252
2
S. Auld
Language and Power
254
6
N. Fairclough
Magic
260
2
C. McIntosh
Mantra
262
2
D. Smith
Masoretic Tradition
264
1
G. Khan
Meditation
264
2
G. Houtman
Metaphor
266
7
V. Sage
Metrical Psalms and Paraphrases
273
1
J. M. Y. Simpson
Mysticism
274
1
R. W. Perrett
Myth
275
1
J. W. Rogerson
Oracle
276
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Performative Utterances
277
1
P. Collins
Prayer
278
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Preaching
278
2
T. G. Addington
Religious Symbols
280
1
M. Douglas
Silence
281
2
M. Saville-Troike
Sutra
283
2
I. Astley
Section V. Beliefs About Language
Introduction
285
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Alphabet: Religious Beliefs
286
1
A. P. Hayman
Analogy
287
1
D. B. Hart
Babel
287
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Buddhism and Language
288
3
I. Onians
Christian Views on Language
291
2
J. Martin Soskice
Fundamentalism
293
1
J. Barr
Gematria
294
1
M. Idel
Hindu Views on Language
295
3
J. J. Lipner
Myths About Language
298
4
A. Cunningham
Names: Religious Beliefs
302
2
J. F. A. Sawyer
Naming
304
4
A. P. Cohen
Postmodernism
308
2
G. Hyman
Ritual
310
3
F. Staal
Romanticism
313
1
P. Fletcher
Taboo, Religious
314
1
M. Douglas
Taboo Words
315
4
M. L. Apte
Word of God
319
2
J. F. A. Sawyer
Section VI. Religion and the Study of Language
Introduction
321
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Arab and Persian Phonetics
322
4
M. H. Bakalla
Arabic Linguistic Tradition
326
10
M. Y. I. H. Suleiman
Aristotle and the Stoics on Language
336
6
F. W. Householder
Chinese Linguistic Tradition
342
4
W. S.-Y. Wang
R. E. Asher
Computers and Religious Studies
346
2
J. F. Elwolde
Hebrew Grammarians
348
7
D. Tene
Japanese Linguistic Thought
355
5
S. Kaiser
Jesuit Missionaries to Sixteenth Century Japan
360
1
J. Moran
Linguistic Theory in the Later Middle Ages
361
7
G. L. Bursill-Hall
Missionaries
368
3
A. F. Walls
Philology and History
371
5
D. R. Kelley
Plato and His Predecessors
376
4
F. W. Householder
Sanskrit, Discovery by Europeans
380
4
R. Rocher
Sanskrit (Paninian) Linguistics
384
7
P. Kiparsky
Summer Institute of Linguistics
391
6
J. Bendor-Samuel
Tamil Linguistic Tradition
397
2
K. V. Zvelebil
Biographies
Ælfric (fl. 987-1010)
399
1
C. Robinson
Agamben, Giorgio (1942-)
400
1
P. Fletcher
Albright, William Foxwell (1891-1971)
400
1
K. C. Cathcart
Andrew of St Victor
401
1
W. McKane
Aquinas, Thomas (1224/5-74)
402
1
D. Hart
Arnauld, Antoine (1612-94)
403
1
P. Swiggers
Ascham, Roger (1515-68)
404
1
A. P. R. Howatt
Barr, James (1924- )
405
1
S. Groom
Barthes, Roland (1915-80)
405
1
M. Toolan
Bataille, George (1897-1962)
406
1
P. Fletcher
Batchelor, John (1853-1944)
407
1
J. C. Maher
Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706)
408
1
N. E. Cronk
Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
408
1
P. Fletcher
Bergstrasser, Gotthelf (1886-1933)
409
1
A. Shivtiel
Bhartrhari (c. 500 CE)
410
1
H. Coward
Black, Matthew (1908-94)
411
1
W. McKane
Bovelles, Charles de (1479-1566)
412
1
C. Demaiziere
Caldwell, Robert (1814-91)
412
1
R. E. Asher
Carey, William (1761-1834)
413
1
A. Mukherjee
Cerulli, Enrico (1898-1988)
414
1
A. K. Irvine
Champollion, Jean-Francois (1790-1832)
415
1
J. D. Ray
Coverdale, Miles (1487-1569)
415
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (1806/08-91)
416
1
J. D. Y. Peel
Cyril and Methodios
417
1
Archimandrite Ephrem
Daly, Mary (1930s- )
418
1
D. Sawyer
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
419
1
M. Davie
Davidson, Andrew Bruce (1831-1902)
420
1
W. Johnstone
Delitzsch, Friedrich Conrad Gerhard (1850-1922)
421
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Derrida, Jacques (1930- )
421
1
G. Collins
Dobrovsky, Josef (1753-1829)
422
1
V. M. Du Feu
Driver, Godfrey Rolles (1892-1975)
423
1
J. F. A. Sawyer
Falc'hun, Francois (1909-91)
424
1
P.-Y. Lambert
Foucault, Michel (1926-84)
425
1
J. C. Maher
Frazer, James George (1854-1941)
426
1
J. W. Rogerson
Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900- )
426
1
L. P. Hemming
Gesenius, Wilhelm (1785-1842)
427
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Gordon, Cyrus Herzl (1980-2001)
428
1
K. J. Cathcart
Gundert, Hermann (1814-93)
429
1
R. E. Asher
Guthrie, Malcolm (1903-72)
430
1
W. M. Mann
Hayyuj, Judan (ca. 940-1010)
431
1
E. Gutwirth
Heidegger, Martin (1899-1976)
432
1
L. P. Hemming
Herder, Johann Gottfried (1744-1803)
433
1
P. B. Salmon
Holder, William (1616-98)
433
1
J. A. Kemp
Humbolt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835)
434
2
J. A. Kemp
Huss, Jan (1372-1415)
436
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Ibn Ezra, Abraham (ca. 1089-1164)
437
1
E. Gutwirth
Ibn Janah (ca. 990-1050)
437
1
E. Gutwirth
Ibn Mada' al-Qurtubi
438
1
M. Y. I. H. Suleiman
Irigaray, Luce (1930s- )
439
1
T. Beattie
Jerome (c. 346-420)
440
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
441
1
R. C. S. Walker
Kilwardby, Robert (ca. 1215-79)
442
1
F. P. Dinneen
Kimhi, David (1160-1235?)
443
1
J. Weinberg
Kittel, Gerhard (1888-1948)
444
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm (1823-1902)
444
1
M. Schladt
Krapf, Johann Ludwig (1810-81)
445
1
E. D. Elderkin
Kristeva, Julia (1941- )
446
1
T. Beattie
Kuiper, Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus (1907- )
447
1
A. G. Menon
Kumarajiva
448
1
P. Williams
Lacan, Jacques (1901-81)
448
1
J. C. Maher
Lancelot, Claude (1615/16-95)
449
1
P. Swiggers
Lepsius, Carl Richard (1810-84)
450
1
J. A. Kemp
Levinas, Emmanuel (1906-95)
451
1
P. Fletcher
Levi-Strauss, Claude (1980- )
452
1
A. T. Campbell
Levita, Elijah (1469-1549)
453
1
J. Weinberg
Lowth, Robert (1710-87)
454
1
I. Michael
Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
455
1
C. J. Wells
Malinowski, Bronislaw Kaspar (1884-1942)
456
1
A. T. Campbell
Matilal, Bimal Krishna (1935-91)
457
1
J. Ganeri
Meinhof, Carl Friedrich Michael (1857-1944)
458
1
M. Schladt
Mesrob (c. 361-c. 439)
459
1
Archimandrite Ephrem
Muller, Friedrich Max (1823-1900)
460
1
R. Sohnen-Thieme
Nida, Eugene Albert (1914- )
461
1
R. E. Longacre
Nobili, Roberto de (1579-1656)
462
1
F. X. Clooney
Noldeke, Theodor (1836-1930)
463
1
A. Shivtiel
Oldendorp, Christian Georg Andreas (1721-87)
464
1
G. G. Gilbert
Panini
465
2
F. Staal
Petrus Hispanus (1210-76)
467
1
F. P. Dineen
Pike, Kenneth Lee (1912-2000)
467
1
R. E. Longacre
Planudes, Maximus (1260-1310)
468
1
R. H. Robins
Polotsky, Hans (Hayyim) Jacob (1905-91)
469
1
A. Shivtiel
Postel, Guillaume (1510-81)
470
1
R. E. Asher
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
471
1
I. Michael
Rajarajavarma, A. R. (1863-1918)
472
1
V. R. Prabodhachandran Nayar
Reinisch, Simon Leo (1832-1919)
473
1
D. L. Appleyard
Renou, Louis (1896-1966)
474
1
R. E. Asher
Reuchlin, Johann (1455-1522)
474
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
475
1
J. H. Grayson
Ross, John (1842-1915)
476
1
J. H. Grayson
Saadya Gaon (882-942)
477
1
J. Weinberg
Saussure, Ferdinand(-Mongin) de (1857-1913)
478
2
E. F. K. Koerner
Scaliger, Joseph Justus (1540-1609)
480
1
R. H. Bremmer Jr
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767-1845)
481
1
K. Grotsch
Schlegel, (Carl Wilhelm) Friedrich von (1772-1829)
481
2
E. F. K. Koerner
Sen, Sukumar (1900-92)
483
1
P. Sarkar
Sibawayhi (Eighth Century CE)
484
1
M. G. Carter
Silvestre de Sacy, Baron Antoine-Isaac (1758-1838)
485
1
M. V. McDonald
Trithemius, Johannes (1462-1516)
486
1
R. E. Asher
Tyndale, William (1494-1536)
487
1
D. Daniell
Ullendorff, Edward (1920- )
487
1
A. K. Irvine
Weber, Max (1864-1920)
488
1
G. Oakes
Weinreich, Uriel (1926-67)
489
1
T. Hill
Welmers, William E. (1916-88)
490
1
R. G. Schuh
Westermann, Diedrich Hermann (1875-1956)
491
1
M. Schladt
Whitney, William Dwight (1827-94)
492
1
E. F. K. Koerner
Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1897-1941)
493
1
J. H. Stam
Wilkins, John (1614-72)
494
1
J. Subbiondo
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
495
4
C. Travis
Wulfila (Ulfilas) (311?-382?)
499
1
J. M. Y. Simpson
Wycliffe, John (1330-1384)
500
1
G. Lloyd Jones
Young, Thomas (1773-1829)
500
1
J. D. Ray
Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaus (1682-1719)
501
2
R. E. Asher
Section VIII. Glossary
Glossary
503
16
M. Dareau
Section IX. Transcriptional Conventions
519
4
Name Index
523
24
Subject Index
547
24
List of Contributors
571