RT Article
T1 Translation, conversion and the containment of proliferation
JF Religion
VO 49
IS 3
SP 388
OP 412
A1 Israel, Hephzibah 1971-
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1670202178
AB This article examines the role of translation in conversion to Christianity in South Asia to argue that recognizing translation as a culturally constructed and contingent category entails investigating different definitions of translation at work within different religious cultures. This helps challenge the assumption that a focus on translation is primarily a consideration of equivalence. Rather than take equivalence as universal or normative in examining the role of translation in religious conversion, this article draws attention to alternative definitions and metaphors of translation that are not concerned chiefly with equivalence which complicate the construction of categories such as religion and conversion in the South Asian colonial context. If translation serves as a regime of interpretation by which religious converts construe their relationship with past and present religions, this article argues it is important to engage with their diverse characterizations of translation.
K1 Hinduism
K1 South Asia
K1 Tamil
K1 Translation
K1 Conversion to Christianity
K1 equivalence
DO 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1627786