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Spiritual modalities : prayer as rhetoric and performance / William FitzGerald.
LIBRA BL560 .F58 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- FitzGerald, William, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prayer.
- Rhetoric.
- Performance.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- "Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prayer: the rediscovered country
- Prayer and its situations: meditation on Kairos and Krisis
- "Hear us, o Lord": audience and address in communicating with the divine
- Invocations of spirit: prayer as speech act
- Dance of attitude: prayer as the performance of reverence
- Performing the Memorare: prayer as a rhetorical art of memory
- Bodies and spirits in virtual motion: prayer and delivery in cyberspace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271056227
- 0271056223
- OCLC:
- 795020411
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