Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith

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