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- Title
Ecclesiastical Pressures and Language Politics: The Boundary Work of Albanian Language in the 17th-18th Centuries.
- Authors
Doja, Albert
- Abstract
In this article, I examine early religious literature in the Albanian language in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which, in combination with ecclesiastical rivalries and a differential opposition to Ottoman rule, must have promoted an inherent cultural process of differentiation, especially between Greek-speaking and Albanian-speaking Orthodox Christians. In particular, I argue that the contradicting motivations of political contradistinction, Enlightenment propagation, Orthodox evangelism, ecclesiastical confrontation, and missionary counteraction lead inadvertently to a boundary work of the social reorganization of linguistic and cultural difference.
- Subjects
ALBANIA; ALBANIAN language; RELIGIOUS literature; LANGUAGE policy; ORTHODOX Christianity; CHURCH &; politics; OTTOMAN Empire
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2022, Vol 50, Issue 4, p742
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/nps.2021.55