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This article discusses the association between socio-linguistics and religion. Socio-lingusitisc is a rapidly expanding discipline. Religion is one of the symbolic systems that man uses to express his values and explain his beliefs. Language is also a part of the symbolic order. The two have more than accidental ties, for if religion also reveals itself by media and other than language, it is nevertheless very closely associated with language in numerous ways. An abundant literature exists on the philosophy of religious language and one only need recall the woks of A. Flew, D. D. Evans, I. T. Ramsey, F. Ferré and L. Wittgenstein. The sociologist of religion also has several ways of controlling the relations between language and religion. The first is to follow the approach of a sociologist of language by studying the social origins and use of language by various human groups. He will then come to trace religious language to its genetic dimensions in relation with the collective experience of the peoples using it. In the perspective of this same sociological approach, there is also a means of studying religious language as a phenomenon of communication and considering the social conditions of this communication. |
