The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion

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<i></i><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion </i>is the first to bring together an extensive interdisciplinary engagement with the multiple ways in which the concepts and practices of translation and religion intersect.</p><p>The book engages a number of scholarly disciplines in conversation with each other, including the study of translation and interpreting, religion, philosophy, anthropology, history, art history, and area studies. A range of leading and emerging international specialists critically engage with changing understandings of the key categories ¿translation¿ and ¿religion¿ as discursive constructs, thus contributing to the development of a new field of academic study, translation and religion. The 28 contributions, divided into six parts, analyze how translation constructs ideas, texts, or objects as ¿sacred¿ or for ¿religious purposes¿, often in competition with what is categorized as ¿non-religious.¿ The part played by faith communities is treated as