Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Change, Conflict and Accommodation; T.Omoniyi Jewish Religious Multilingualism; B.Spolsky Mauritian Muslims: Negotiating Changing Identities Through Language; A.Rajah-Carrim Arabic and Socio-Cultural Change Among the Yoruba; O.Salami Authenticating a Tradition in Transition: Language of Hinduism in the U.S; R.Pandharipande Blorít – Pagans' Mohawk or Sabras' Forelock?: Ideological Secularization of Hebrew Terms in Socialist Zionist Israeli; A.Yadin & G.Zuckermann Society, Language, History, and Religion: A Perspective on Bangla from Linguistic Anthropology; J.Wilce Metaphors of Change: Adolescent Singaporeans Switching Religion; P.Ghim-Lian Chew African American Vernacular English, Religion and Ethnicity; N.Kamwangamalu Holy Hip-Hop, Language and Social Change; T.Omoniyi Index