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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821256603321

Titolo

Mapping Christian rhetorics : connecting conversations, charting new territories / / edited by Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-67083-3

1-138-09778-0

1-315-76991-3

1-317-67084-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication ; ; 21

Disciplina

261.5/8

261.58

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Current Trends and Future Directions in Christian Rhetorics; SECTION I Christianity and Rhetorical Theory; 1 Defining Religious Rhetoric: Scope and Consequence; 2 Seeking, Speaking Terra Incognita: Charting the Rhetorics of Prayer; 3 The Agentive Play of Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee; SECTION II Christianity and Rhetorical Education; 4 "Where the Wild Things Are": Christian Students in the Figured Worlds of Composition Research; 5 Sacred Texts, Secular Classrooms, and the Teaching of Theory

SECTION III Christianity and Rhetorical Methodology6 Coming to (Troubled) Terms: Methodology, Positionality, and the Problem of Defining "Evangelical Christian"; 7 Empirical Hybridity: A Multimethodological Approach for Studying Religious Rhetorics; 8 Evangelical Masculinity in The Pilgrim Boy: A Historical Analysis with Methodological Implications; SECTION IV Christianity and Civic Engagement; 9 Mapping the Rhetoric of Intelligent Design: The Agentification of the Scene; 10 "Heaven-Touched Lips and Pent-Up Voices": The Rhetoric of American Female Preaching Apologia, 1820-1930



11 The Deaconess Identity: An Argument for Professional Churchwomen and Social Christianity12 Transforming Decorum: The Sophistic Appeal of Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel; SECTION V (Re)Mapping Religious Rhetorics; 13 More in Heaven and Earth: Complicating the Map and Constituting Identities; 14 Charting Prospects and Possibilities for Scholarship on Religious Rhetorics; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The continued importance of Christian rhetorics in political, social, pedagogical, and civic affairs suggests that such rhetorics not only belong on the map of rhetorical studies, but are indeed essential to the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century. This collection argues that concerning ourselves with religious rhetorics in general and Christian rhetorics in particular tells us something about rhetoric itself-its boundaries, its characteristics, its functionings. In assembling original research on the intersections of rhetoric and Christianity from prominent and emergin