Cherokee Grammar and Worldview: Examples from the Cherokee Bible

Join the Linguistics Program for its Linguistics Circle Series with Margaret Bender and Thomas N. Belt as they discuss their recent book The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible. Together they demonstrate how Christianity, written in and on Cherokee terms, can be uniquely and distinctly Cherokee, while remaining undeniably Christian. Their analysis suggests that the
Cherokee Bible records this cross-cultural encounter at a deep philosophical level, providing evidence that microlinguistic detail powerfully and intricately reflects macrosociological phenomena.

Tuesday, February 26, 2026 at 3:30pm in Greene Hall room 239.