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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 191–198

Religious texts and oral tradition

| University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
Article outline
  • 1.Oral-written religious traditions
  • 2.Hindu oral tradition and religious texts
  • 3.Buddhist oral tradition and religious texts
  • 4.Taoist oral tradition and religious texts
  • 5.Conclusion
  • References
  • Texts/Translations
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.rel5
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References
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Texts/Translations
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, A.C., trans. 1986. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.Google Scholar
Gandhi, Mahatma. 2002. Bhagavad-Gïtā. Stepney: Axiom.Google Scholar
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Johnson, Will J. 2005. “Making Sanskritic or Making Strange? How Should we Translate Classical Hindu Texts?” In Translation and religion. Holy Untranslatable? ed. by Lynne Long, 65–74. Cleveland: Multilingual matters.Google Scholar
Jousse, Marcel. 2018. Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers. The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionalists. Biblical Performance Criticism 15, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books.Google Scholar
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Naudé, Jacobus A. and Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé. 2018. “Sacred writings.” In Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation, ed. by Kelly Washbourne, and Ben Van Wyke, 181–205. London: Routledge. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Zhang, Wei. 2016. Translating Dao. “Cross-Cultural Translation as a Hermeneutic of Edification.” In Translating Religion, ed. by Michael DeJonge, and Christiane Tietz, 13–28. London: Routledge.Google Scholar