Postgraduate Course: Translating the Sacred: Concepts, Texts and Transmission of Religions (CLLC11132)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The aim of this course is to engage in a comparative study of translation practices and methods across religious traditions, with particular attention to examining how key translation issues are played out in the context of translating the 'sacred'. This course will explore how religions have adopted various strategies to negotiate a place for themselves amidst competing notions of the sacred in new cultures they enter. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically understand and examine how conceptual categories of the sacred travel across languages and cultures and engage in comparative study of how different religious traditions have conceptualised and practice translation
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of the diversity of approaches to translating religious texts/concepts
- Identify, analyse and evaluate case studies of translations from different religious contexts in the light of wider ¿secular¿ social and political issues
- Carry out in-depth research on how translation functions in different religious contexts and develop the capacity to formulate suitable research questions and critical arguments
- Apply and test translation theories with reflective insight in relation to the translation of religious texts
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | TtS |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Hephzibah Israel
Tel: (0131 6)50 4467
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Course secretary | Miss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
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