Mapping Christian Rhetorics Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories [Paperback]

The continued importance of Christian rhetorics in political, social, pedagogical, and civic affairs suggests that such rhetorics not only belong on the map of rhetorical studies, but are indeed essential to the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century. This collection argues that concerning ourselves with religious rhetorics in general and Christian rhetorics in particular tells us something about rhetoric itselfits boundaries, its characteristics, its functionings. In assembling original research on the intersections of rhetoric and Christianity from prominent and emerging scholars, Mapping Christian Rhetoricsseeks to locate religion more centrally within the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century. It does so by acknowledging work on Christian rhetorics that has been overlooked or ignored; connecting domains of knowledge and research areas pertaining to Christian rhetorics that may remain disconnected or under connected; and charting new avenues of inquiry about Christian rhetorics that might invigorate theory-building, teaching, research, and civic engagement. In dividing the terrain of Christian rhetorics into four categoriestheory, education, methodology, and civic engagementMapping Christian Rhetoricsaims to foster connections among these areas of inquiry and spur future future collaboration between scholars of religious rhetoric in a range of research areas.

Introduction: Current Trends and Future Directions in Christian Rhetorics  Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer  Section I: Christianity and Rhetorical Theory  1. Defining Religious Rhetoric: Scope and Consequence  Brian Jackson  2. Seeking, Speaking Terra Incognita: Charting the Rhetorics of Prayer  William T. FitzGerald  3. The Agentive Play of Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee  Richard BelCk