Mapping Christian Rhetorics

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 Benjamin Crosby Section II: Christianity and Rhetorical Education 4. "Where the Wild Things Are": Christian Students in the Figured Worlds of Composition Research Elizabeth Vander Lei 5. Sacred Texts, Secular Classrooms, and the Teaching of Theory Thomas Deans Section III: Christianity and Rhetorical Methodology 6. Coming to (Troubled) Terms: Methodology, Positionality, and the Problem of Defining "Evangelical Christian" Emily Murphy Cope and Jeffrey M. Ringer 7. Empirical Hybridity: A Multimethodological Approach for Studying Religious Rhetorics Heather Thomson-Bunn 8. Evangelical Masculinity in The Pilgrim Boy: A Historical Analysis with Methodological Implications Brenda Glascott Section IV: Christianity and Civic Engagement 9. Mapping the Rhetoric of Intelligent Design: The Agentification of the Scene Matthew T. Althouse, Lawrence J. Prelli, and Floyd D. Anderson 10. "Heaven-touched Lips and Pent-up Voices": The Rhetoric of American Female Preaching Apologia, 1820-1930 Lisa Zimmerelli 11. The Deaconess Identity: An Argument for Professional Churchwomen and Social Christianity Lisa J. Shaver 12. Transforming Decorum: The Sophistic Appeal of Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel William Duffy Section V: (Re)Mapping Religious Rhetorics 13. More in Heaven and Earth: Complicating the Map and Constituting Identities Beth Daniell 14. Charting Prospects and Possibilities for Scholarship of Religious Rhetorics Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer