Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of
religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived.
This ground-breaking research draws attention to the journey of one
migrant religious institution in an era of religious
superdiversity. Based on a sociolinguistic ethnography in a Tamil
Saivite temple in Australia, the book explores the challenges for
the institution in maintaining its linguistic and cultural identity
in a new context. The temple is faced with catering for devotees of
diverse ethnicities, languages, and religious interpretations; not
to mention divergent views between different generations of
migrants who share ethnicity and language. At the same time, core
members of the temple seek to continue religious and cultural
practices according to the traditions of their homelands in Sri
Lanka, a country where their identity and language has been under
threat. The study offers a rich picture of changing language
practices in a diasporic religious institution. Perera inspects
language ideology considerations in the design of institutional
language policy and how such policy manifests in language use in
the temple spaces. This includes the temple's Sunday school where
heritage language and religion interplay in second-generation
migrant adolescents' identifications and discourse.
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