xxxi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-334) and index.
Contents:
The great bonds of humanity : languages and faiths -- Scattered jades : a Mexican Virgin Mary -- On ass's lip, and a great conveyance : the Buddha taken north -- "Fine words are not trusty" : Aryan vehicle on road into Chinese -- "To deep of lip and heavy of tongue" : from Galilee to the Gentile -- "In this sigh you will conquer" : chosen by emperors -- "Every man heard ... his own language" : one Christ, many tongues? -- "Proclaiming the Good News" : with Christ into northern Europe -- "Adze-headed across the sea" : white martyrdom -- The Savior as our chieftain : the Gospel of the war band -- "Listen, all ye Slavs" : orthodoxy rejects trilingualism -- Conversion by the book : the faith reinforced in Latin America -- Gloria Tlatoani : Christian literature among the Indios -- Extirpación de idiomas? : asserting monolingualism -- "Back to the sources" : God's Word and translation -- God and language beyond imitation : one enough -- The enduring marks of language conversions.
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