Ditchfield, Simon Richard orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-0271 (2017) Translating Christianity in an Age of Reformations. Studies in Church History. 11. pp. 164-195. ISSN 0424-2084
Abstract
This article argues that the age of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the global spread of the latter brought with it the challenge that not only was it necessary to learn new languages in order to communicate the Christian message to non-European peoples encountered during the so-called ‘Age of Discovery’, but some kind of control had to be exercised over the new, global circulation of sacred images and relics. The latter facilitated the visual (and virtual) translation of such holy sites as Jerusalem and Rome and its specific holy treasures in the mental prayers of the faithful. It concludes that it was less Lamin Sanneh’s ‘triumph of [linguistic] translatability’ and more the physical translatability of the sacred that made possible the emergence of Roman Catholicism as this planet’s first world religion.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Ecclesiastical History Society, 2017. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | translation ,reformations,age of discovery |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2017 12:00 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2016.11 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/stc.2016.11 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115307 |
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