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Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia.

Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at the Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, incl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, Brian P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on translation and transliteration; 1 Introduction; 2 Religion, language, religious language; 3 Az, buki, vedi: The ABCs of religious literacy; 4 Translator, traitor?: The debate over liturgical language; 5 Logos: Slavonic letterforms and the graphic environment; 6 From Marx and Lenin to Cyril and Methodius; 7 Scripting Russian history: Alphabet mysticism and conspiracy theory; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.