On Translation And Dissemination Of Religious Works From The Perspective Of Adaptation Theory

Religious translation is a kind of cultural translation with distinct purposiveness.Based on the Adaptation Theory,this thesis is to discuss the religious translation since 1949 in the communicative context.From macroscopically to microscopically,the characteristics of religious translation are illustrated and compared in the fields of Buddhism,Taoism,Islam and Christianity in search of proper translation strategies.The main focus of Buddhism translation is on the Buddhism Scriptures and the Buddhism history,and fidelity has been paid more attention to.The Taoism translation had obviously been influenced by the west before the 1970 s,and after that has gradually featured the translation approach of foreignization.The translation of Islamic works started to boom in the late 1970 s and it seemed that its translation was gently affected by the culture of the target language.During the 1950s-1970 s,there was not much translated Christian works.However,its translation thrived after the Reform and Opening-up along with the great number,the wide fields and rich content.Following the above study is a case study of the translation of the Bible from the perspective of pragmatics.The CUNP and the TCV of the Bible are analyzed comparatively in terms of adaptation to the spiritual world,physical world and social word respectively.It manifests that the Christian translation after 1949 represents the features of modernization,liberalization and popularization.In general,the strategy of foreignization ought to be adopted when it comes to religious translation with its sanctity,mystique and connotations so as to reflect the original text faithfully.