Rhetoric and Religious Experience
The Discourse of Immigrant Chinese Churches
Lawrence A. Palinkas(Author)
George Mason University Press
Published on 1. February 1990
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-0-913969-27-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is a book about religious rhetoric, its cultural foundations, and its role in articulating sociocultural change and facilitating psychosocial adaptation to the demands of a new environment. It draws its inspiration from the work of F.G. Bailey, Kenneth Burke, and James Fernandez, and focuses on the ethnography of religious discourse as it relates to Chinese immigrant churches. Contents: Introduction: The Force of Words; The Arena of Religious Discourse; Orators and Audiences; The Public Discourse; Two Sermons; A Model of Chinese Christian Rhetoric and Its Origins; The Chinese Christian World View; Church Unity and Social Conflict; Personal Disorder and the Quest for Identity; Leadership and Religious Authority; and Identification and Transformation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-913969-27-4 (9780913969274)
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Person
Lawrence A. Palinkas is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at University of California, San Diego.