TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erben,Patrick M.
TI  - A harmony of the spirits: translation and the language of community in early Pennsylvania 
SN  - 9781469601342
AV  - P120 .H376 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; "Unter der Leitung seines Geistes": Spiritual translation in early America --; Reversing the heritage of Babel: Visions of religious and linguistic renewal in seventeenth-century Europe --; Translating Pennsylvania: visions of spiritual community in promotional literature --; Debating Pennsylvania: religious and linguistic diversity and difference --; "Honey-combs" and "paper-hives": Francis Daniel Pastorius and the gathering of a translingual community of letters --; A hidden voice amplified: music, mysticism, and translation --; "What will become of Pennsylvania?": war, community and the language of suffering for peace --; Confusio linguarum redux: Moravian missions, multilingualism, and the search for a spiritual language; 2; b
N2  - In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. This book challenges the long-standing historical myth - first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin - that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. It deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the 'holy experiment'
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