Medium or Message? - Language and Faith in Ethnic Churches

This book describes the nature of the relationship between language and religion and examines the issues faced by sixteen Australian congregations, together representing different periods of Australia's migration history, as well as different languages, cultural backgrounds and Christian denominations.

About the author

Anya Woods is an Honorary Fellow in the Research Unit for Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Communication which is located in the School of Languages at the University of Melbourne, and is also engaged on an occasional basis in projects with the Linguistics Program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

Product details

• Authors: Anya Woods
• Publisher: Channel View Publications - IPSUK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2004
• EAN: 9781853597237
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-723-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Langu; Multilingual Matters; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works