Im Anfang war das Wort
Sprache, Politik, Religion
edited by Thomas A. Seidel and Sebastian Kleinschmidt
Paperback (Published)
(February 2022)
ISBN: 9783374070107
Price: $32.00
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German description: Wir sind in Religion, Politik und Kultur zunehmend mit raffinierten Sprachmanipulationen und Wortkodierungen konfrontiert. Haufig wird die Aufforderung zu individueller Ubernahme neuer Begriffe und neuer Sprechweisen mit moralisch hochstehenden Argumenten wie (Geschlechter-)Gerechtigkeit, Antidiskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung begrundet. Der Streit um Sinn bzw. Unsinn von solcherart Sprachreformen polarisiert die Gesellschaft, spaltet Familien und Freundeskreise und hinterlasst oft einfach nur sprachlose Ratlosigkeit. Ein geschichtsloser, unreflektierter Umgang mit Sprache schafft einen gefahrlichen Boden fur neue Propaganda und zeitgeistaffinen ideologischen Irrationalismus. Fur die reformatorischen Kirchen des Wortes ist das unannehmbar, da diese Ideologie die Vitalitat des biblischen Zeugnisses angreift. Die Beitrage dieses Buches halten entschieden und sprachbewusst dagegen. Mit Beitragen von Jobst Landgrebe, Klaus-Rudiger Mai, Christoph Meyns, Michael Daishiro Nakajima, Rene Nehring, Harald Seubert, Senthuran Varatharajah und Annette Weidhas. English summary: In religion, politics and culture, we are increasingly confronted with sophisticated manipulations of language and the coding of words. Often the call for the individual to adopt new concepts and new ways of speaking is justified with morally high-minded arguments such as (gender) justice, anti-discrimination, and equal treatment. The dispute over the sense or nonsense of such language reforms polarizes society, divides families and friends, often leaving speechless perplexity. An ahistorical, unreflective approach to language creates a dangerous ground for new propaganda and ideological fanaticism in keeping with the current zeitgeist. For the “churches of the Word” of the Reformation, this amounts to an attack on the vitality of biblical testimony. The contributions in this book take a resolute and linguistically aware stand against such an approach.
- Edited by Sebastian Kleinschmidt
- Edited by Thomas A Seidel
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