God in the City
A thematic session held at the 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium at the Freie Universität Berlin in August 2012
Chaired by Tope Omoniyi and Christian Muench
Papers presented:
- The language of Jewish worship in the city (Bernard Spolsky)
- Jewish Identities in the Last Days of Empire: Language Repertoires in Turn- of-the- Century Lviv (Tracie L Wilson)
- Ethnolinguistic and Religious Identity Negotiation of Muslims in Singapore (Yurni Irwati Said-Sirhan)
- Religious language and slang as resources in constructing religious identity in an urban setting (Laura Paananen)
- Addressing a city of unbelievers: Discursive practices of Christian preachers in the constitution of “us” and “them” (Martin Havlík)
- Political Empowerment of Immigrants through Language Development and Participation in church life (Xaé Alicia Reyes)
- Spirit possession and sense-making processes in Brazilian Umbanda (Alexandra Maria Duppé)
- Faith, language and identity in Latino Churches in the United States (Christian Münch)
- The role of religious practices for sustainability of a minority group: the case of Catholic and Muslim Albanians in Croatian urban settings (Mirna Jernej, Lucija Šimičić)
- Beyond the Great Tradition: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of ‘Religious Classicals’ (Brian Bennett)
The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) 