Beschreibung:
This edited collection examines how geography and space, two key constructs of communication, affect the public understanding of religion.
In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and intercultural landscapes.
Introduction: Communication, Landscape, and Faith
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels
Part One: The Philosophical Landscape
Chapter 1: From Here to Eternity: The Scope of Misreading Plato's Religion
Mark A. E. Williams
Chapter 2: The Equivocal Tao of “Nature”: I.A. Richards, C. S. Lewis, and the Heresy of Coalescence
Steven L. Reagles
Part Two: The “Built” Landscape
Chapter 3: Building a House of Worship One (Agnostic) Platform at a Time
Jeffrey Bogaczyk
Chapter 4: The Tourist Gaze and the Church: Megachurch as Tourist Site
Annalee R. Ward
Chapter 5: Sanctuar(ies) for Sanctuary: A Rhetorical Analysis of Berlin’s The House of One
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels
Part Three: The Performative Landscape
Chapter 6: Salvation on the Wicked Stage: Charles Grandison Finney, Aimee Semple McPherson, and the Legacy of Faith Performance in American Revivals
Bradley W. Griffin
Chapter 7: Pope Francis’s Semiotic-Ethotic Conversion: Visual Humility, Metonymy, and Religious Mimesis
Christopher J. Oldenburg
Chapter 8: Identification and Unity: Easter Celebrations in the Holy Land
Barbara S. Spies
Chapter 9: The Public Work of Faith in Senegal: The Y’en a Marre Movement, the Marabouts, and Interfaith Cohesion
Devin Bryson
Part Four: The Political Landscape
Chapter 10: Virtues as a Horizon for Intercultural Understanding: The Roles of Faith and Nationality
L. Ripley Smith
Chapter 11: Rhetorical Tapestry: Mandela, Messianism, and Faith as a Source of Rhetorical Invention
Peter A. Verkruyse
Chapter 12: Human Price Tags and the Politics of Representation in Sex Trafficking: Christian Women’s Missionary Discourse of the 21st Century
Kirsten L. Isgro
Chapter 13: All Who Do Not Lay Their Obligations on the Same Altar: Christian Privilege, Religious Diversity, and American Political Discourse
Jacob Stutzman
Part Five: The Intercultural Landscape
Chapter 14: “This is What God Wills”: Observing Global Perspectives on the Impact of Fatalism in Health Communication
Kallia O. Wright
Chapter 15: “Moving Forward”: The Rhetoric of Social Intervention and the Presbyterian Church in America’s Cultural Outreach
Mark A. Gring
Chapter 16: Bringing Together and Setting Apart: Christianity’s Role in the Formation of Deaf Cultural Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Elizabeth S. Parks