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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 by bringing together a diverse group of rhetorical scholars to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking collection on rhetoric and religion. This volume addresses these topics in three separate sections: 1. Rhetorics of religion at work in public activism, 2. Rhetorics of religion in contemporary public discourse, and 3. Ways that rhetoric scholars study religion. Scholars of rhetoric, religion, and social sciences will find this book particularly interesting.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
James W. Vining

Section I: Rhetorics of Religion in Public Activism
Chapter 1. Christian Communal Parrhesia and the Case of the 1965 Bloody Sunday March
Joshua H. Miller
Chapter 2. Baylor Abroad: Revisiting the Racial Legacy of Baptist Evangelism
Jeffrey B. Nagel
Chapter 3. Social Christian Theology Animating Civic Rhetorical Activism
Sara M. Dye and Michael-John DePalma
Chapter 4. A Site of Sacred Resistance: The Eco-Spiritual Appeals of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ”
Christopher Thomas

Section 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'
Raymond Blanton
Chapter 6. Trickster Politics and Islamist Rhetoric in Regime-Sponsored Nationalist Songs in Post-June 30 Egypt
Farah Mourad
Chapter 7. To Splinter and Split: Mapping the Use of the Term Evangelical on Twitter in the Age of Trump
Emily Murphy Cope,

Product details

Published 10 Aug 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 298
ISBN 9781793622822
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 8 tables;
Dimensions 229 x 161 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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