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This TransUnit is an interdisciplinary team with a common research interest: the translation of religious texts in a missionary context.<\/p>\n
Our team will focus on exploring catechisms, a particularly popular genre in the early modern period when missionaries used it as a tool for evangelising non-Christians around the world. As missionaries believed that non-Christians could only be convinced of the truth of Christianity in their mother tongue, the translation of catechisms played a key role in missionary contact-zones. Catechisms were usually among the first texts translated and published by missionaries in local languages.<\/p>\n
While catechisms were originally aimed at replacing beliefs and worldviews in and outside of Europe with the Christian religion, they can today serve as important testimonies to less well-documented contact situations and strategies of teaching the Christian faith and shed light on processes of linguistic and cultural exchange in the context of missionary endeavours.<\/p>\n
The special character of this type of text allows for a variety of approaches, such as from the fields of postcolonial studies and cultural translation. Our team will analyse these texts from different angles, a task in which the individual projects will support each other through interdisciplinary and cross-language comparisons. Specifically, the TransUnit deals with translations of catechisms into Arabic, Tamil, Welsh, and Zapotec.<\/p>\n
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Yannic Klamp<\/a>, Research Assistant of the project \u2018Colonial Translation practices<\/a>\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mission in Translation – Mission (Im)possible? This TransUnit is an interdisciplinary team with a common research interest: the translation of religious texts in a missionary context. Our team will focus on exploring catechisms, a particularly popular genre in the early modern period when missionaries used it as a tool for evangelising non-Christians around the world. As missionaries believed that non-Christians could only be convinced of the truth of Christianity in their mother tongue, the translation of catechisms played a key role in missionary contact-zones. Catechisms were usually among the first texts translated and published by missionaries in local languages. While catechisms were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\n
\nPaula Manstetten<\/a>, Research Assistant of the project \u2018Salomon Negri<\/a>\u2019
\nGiulia Nardini<\/a>, Research Assistant of the project \u2018Roberto Nobili<\/a>\u2019
\nElena Parina<\/a>, Co-Director of the project \u2018Translating into welsh<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n