Improving the Public: Translating Protestant Values through Nineteenth-Century Bilingual Print Journalism in South Asia
Improving the Public: Translating Protestant Values through Nineteenth-Century Bilingual Print Journalism in South Asia
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改善公众：通过南亚十九世纪双语印刷新闻翻译新教价值观
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10.1057/978-1-137-54971-6_10
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2016
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Hephzibah Israel
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Hephzibah Israel
“新教”一词是从欧洲宗教改革的特定宗教和政治背景中产生的，但它是如何传播到欧洲以外的文化中的呢？在南亚，“新教”一词在大多数印度语言中仍然没有翻译。以色列探索了它在19世纪讲泰米尔语的南印度和斯里兰卡获得的一系列意义，神圣的和世俗的。她以1841年在贾夫纳（今斯里兰卡）出版的双语（泰米尔语和英语）期刊《Utaya Tārakai / Morning星星》为重点，认为通过将“新教”与“理性”等同起来，塑造“理性”和改进的公众舆论是可能的，其中“新教”的立场是唯一“合理”的立场。
The term ‘Protestant’ is one that rose out of the specific religious and political contexts of Reformation Europe, but how did it travel to cultures outside Europe? In South Asia, the term ‘Protestant’ remained untranslated in most Indian languages. Israel explores the range of meanings, sacred and secular, that it acquired in nineteenth-century Tamil-speaking South India and Sri Lanka. Focusing on a bilingual (Tamil and English) journal Utaya Tārakai / Morning Star published from Jaffna (in present-day Sri Lanka) from 1841, she argues that the enterprise to shape a ‘rational’ and improved public opinion is possible by equating ‘Protestant’ with ‘rationality’ where the ‘Protestant’ position is the only ‘reasonable’ one.