Mapping Christian Rhetorics : Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories.
DePalma, Michael-John.
Mapping Christian Rhetorics : Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (320 pages) - Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series . - Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series .
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 Methodology -- 6 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 Christianity -- 12 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.
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.
9781317670841
Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Electronic books.
BR115.R55 -- .M377 2015eb
261.5/8
Mapping Christian Rhetorics : Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (320 pages) - Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series . - Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series .
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 Methodology -- 6 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 Christianity -- 12 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.
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.
9781317670841
Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Electronic books.
BR115.R55 -- .M377 2015eb
261.5/8