Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories

ISBN-13: 9781138097780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 306 str.

Michael-John Depalma; Jeffrey M. Ringer

Opis

The continued importance of Christian rhetorics in political, social, pedagogical, and civic affairs suggests that such rhetorics are essential to the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century. Mapping Christian Rhetorics argues that understanding religious rhetorics helps rhetoricians understand the nature of rhetoric itself—its boundaries, its characteristics, its functionings.

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Introduction: Current Trends and Future Directions in Christian Rhetorics  Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer  Section I: Christianity and Rhetorical Theory  1. Defining Religious Rhetoric: Scope and Consequence  Brian Jackson  2. Seeking, Speaking Terra Incognita: Charting the Rhetorics of Prayer  William T. FitzGerald  3. The Agentive Play of Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee  Richard Benjamin Crosby  Section II: Christianity and Rhetorical Education  4. "Where the Wild Things Are": Christian Students in the Figured Worlds of Composition Research  Elizabeth Vander Lei  5. Sacred Texts, Secular Classrooms, and the Teaching of Theory  Thomas Deans  Section III: Christianity and Rhetorical Methodology  6. Coming to (Troubled) Terms: Methodology, Positionality, and the Problem of Defining "Evangelical Christian"  Emily Murphy Cope and Jeffrey M. Ringer  7. Empirical Hybridity: A Multimethodological Approach for Studying Religious Rhetorics  Heather Thomson-Bunn  8. Evangelical Masculinity in The Pilgrim Boy: A Historical Analysis with Methodological Implications  Brenda Glascott  Section IV: Christianity and Civic Engagement  9. Mapping the Rhetoric of Intelligent Design: The Agentification of the Scene  Matthew T. Althouse, Lawrence J. Prelli, and Floyd D. Anderson  10. "Heaven-touched Lips and Pent-up Voices": The Rhetoric of American Female Preaching Apologia, 1820-1930  Lisa Zimmerelli  11. The Deaconess Identity: An Argument for Professional Churchwomen and Social Christianity  Lisa J. Shaver  12. Transforming Decorum: The Sophistic Appeal of Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel  William Duffy  Section V: (Re)Mapping Religious Rhetorics  13. More in Heaven and Earth: Complicating the Map and Constituting Identities  Beth Daniell  14. Charting Prospects and Possibilities for Scholarship of Religious Rhetorics  Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer