New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion

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.

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

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, Jeff Ringer, Holland Prior, and Megan Von Bergen

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

Tiffany Thames Copeland and Wei Sun

Section 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

Mark Allan Steiner

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

Elizabeth Kimball

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

Kristina M. Lee

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

James W. Vining

Conclusion

Christian Lundberg