New directions in rhetoric and religion : exploring emerging intersections of religion, public discourse, and rhetorical scholarship / edited by James W. Vining.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vining, James W., 1973- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Religious aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2021.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]

Summary:

New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion reflects the complex and fluid natures of religion, rhetoric, and public life in our globalized, digital, and politically polarized world.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

References

Part I: Rhetorics of Religion in Public Activism

Chapter 1: Christian Communal Parrhesia and the Case of the 1965 Bloody Sunday March

Christian Parrhesia and Rhetoric

Bloody Sunday's Parrhesia

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Baylor Abroad : Revisiting the Racial Legacy of Baptist Evangelism

Baptist Missionals and the Question of Evangelism

The Southern Baptist Convention and Fundamentalist Takeover

Southern Baptists and "The Judgment of History"

Baylor as "Baptist" and the Missional Tradition

Chapter 3: Social Christian Theology Animating Civic Rhetorical Activism

Andover Settlement House and Social Christian Theology

The Texas Hunger Initiative and Twenty-First-Century Social Christianity

Social Christian Theology Animating Civic Action: Three Strategies for Rhetorical Activism

Chapter 4: A Site of Sacred Resistance: Eco-Spiritual Appeals, Environmental Justice, and the Adorers of the Blood of Christ

Catholic Women's Eco-Spiritual Appeals

The "Stand with the Sisters" Protest

Breaking New Ground

Part II: Rhetorics of Religion in Contemporary Publics

Chapter 5: Religion and Rhetoric in Moments of Crisis: Obstacles and an Opportunity in Timothy Keller's "Truth, Tears, Anger, and Grace"

Obstacles: An Attitude and a Practice That Culminate in a Trained Incapacity

An Opportunity: Timothy Keller

September 11, 2001

September 16, 2001

A Representative Anecdote: "Truth, Tears, Anger, and Grace"

Call to Worship

Prayer

Passage: John 11:20-52-Jesus at the Tomb of Lazarus

Keller's Religious Rhetoric and Rhetoric of Religion

References.

Chapter 6: Constitutive Rhetoric, Islamist Discourse, and the Power of "Peoplehood": An Analysis of Regime-Sponsored Nationalist Songs in Post-June 30 Egypt

Background Information

Why the Focus on Regime-Sponsored Nationalist Songs

Overview of Songs under Study

The Constitutive Rhetoric: The October War as a Locus of Post-June 30 Egypt

The Second Ideological Effect: Presenting Egypt's Glorious Pharaonic Past as an Extension to the Sisi Regime

The First Ideological Effect: Using the Egyptian Flag to Constitute a "Collective Subject"

The Third Ideological Effect: Using the Power of "Peoplehood" in a Political Myth to Entice Social Action

Chapter 7: To Splinter and Split: Mapping the Use of the Term "Evangelical" on Twitter in the Age of Trump

Methods

Results

Discussion

Notes

Chapter 8: Let's Pray for President Trump in Church: An Analysis of Franklin Graham's Trump Posts on Facebook

Literature Review

Methodology

Findings

Part III: Considerations for Future Scholarship on Rhetoric and Religion

Chapter 9: What I Wish Rhetoric Scholars and American Evangelical Christians Would Learn by Studying Religious Rhetoric: A Rhetorological Exercise

Wayne Booth and Rhetorology

Blindnesses and Shared Dysfunctions

What Evangelicals Can Learn

What Academics Can Learn

Chapter 10: The Religious and Rhetorical Afterlives of John Quincy Adams

Orienting to Religion in Rhetoric

Who Was John Quincy Adams?

Adams among the Rhetoricians

Figuring in Contemporary Christianity

Chapter 11: The Atheist Dilemma: Studying Non-theists in Rhetorical Studies

Concern #1: Recognizing the Marginalization of Atheists

Concern #2: Finding the Right Label.

Concern #3: Acknowledging the Limitations of Public Polls

Concern #4: Finding a Home for Atheist Scholarship

Chapter 12: The Problem of Religion and Promise of Theology in Rhetorical Scholarship

Problems with the Category Religion

Advantages of Theology

Proposal of Textual Theology

Case Study: North Carolina Clergy Political Action Rhetoric

Conclusion: Rhetoric's Affective Reckoning: Holy Icons and Sacred Idols

Commitment and Investment

Activism, or, the Sacred and Holy

Religion in Public: Idols and Icons

Conclusion: Incarnation and Interpretation

Index

About the Editor and Contributors

About the Editor

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-2210-9

1-7936-2283-3

OCLC:

1256589977