Sacred Languages of the World An Introduction
- U K Wiley Blackwell 2017
- 224p
includes index and biblioraphy
What exactly is a Sacred Language ..........1 Sacred Languages, Past and Present .............21 Not Dead Yet: Latin as Test Case ............48 Beliefs About Sacred Languages .............77 Practices: Religious, Political, Artistic................102 Learning a Sacred Language .............129 Communities and Controversies ..............155 Borderlines: Sacred Languages, Fundamentalism, and Globalization ...............210