How can you be inhabited by language

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Problem: Anthropology of Religious Studies Essay

This can be a difficult read: Susan Harding is examining evangelical Christian language as a meaningful linguistic form (a shape, or a structure). After you complete your reading, write a thoughtful discussion post about what you've learned. Consider the following questions:

Susan Harding says, "It was my voice but not my language. I had been inhabited by the fundamentalist Baptist tongue I was investigating." What do you think she meant by that? How can you be inhabited by language?

Read the first full paragraph on pg. 34 for a second time after you read the entire article. What do you think Harding means when she says that we can "conceive of conversion as a process of acquiring a specific religious language or dialect"? What is she trying to articulate in that paragraph?

1) On the bottom of 36 and the top of 37, Harding says that "Witnessing is more informal... (and appears to be no more that a conversation between the witness, who is saved, and an unsaved listener. But it is no mere conversation." Over the course of the next two paragraphs, Harding tells us how it is "no mere conversation." How so?

2) What was important about the stories of Nicodemus and Abraham & Issac in terms of the witnessing form-in other words, how does Campbell use these stories, and what is Susan led to find out?

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