Fourteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

This paper relies on a definition that conceptualizes translation in which opposed or differentiated worldviews and frames of references need to be inter-comprehended by competing or adversary groups within a single or among diverse societies. This approach to translation does not focus on the textual manipulations that betray the narratives already taken up in the literature; it actively engages in social and discursive negotiations in order to bring about change in the dynamics of intergroup and intercultural relations. As a result of this conceptual distinction between the approaches found in the existing literature and the proposed alternative, this paper addresses the notions of the religious, the political, the radical/extreme, the conservative, the secular and the social as the objects of the extended conceptions of translation as inspired by the works of François Burgat, Jürgen Habermas, and J-M Ferry, and repurposed in the context of the proposed reflection.