Lexington Books
Pages: 410
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-1581-8 • Hardback • April 2016 • $150.00 • (£115.00)
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels is professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Illinois College.
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
This valuable and wide-ranging collection of essays will benefit both practitioners and scholars of religious communication. Practitioners will discover that the truths they seek, even those which are eternal and unchanging, must be communicated in infinitely variable physical and mental landscapes. Scholars will discover that religions are not simply manifestations of deeper social processes but generate supreme realities that profoundly structure believers' communication. Such understandings are vital in fostering the interfaith dialogues that are so needed in our world today.
— Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston–Victoria
Adrienne Hacker Daniels has given readers an innovative collection of essays that may help reshape the way we conceptualize religious communication as a discipline of study. Freshly written with scholarly flair, the contributions to this edited volume point a way forward in our discussions about faith and faiths in a global perspective. Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith is a timely gift to the academy.
— Daniel S. Brown Jr., Grove City College
In Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith, Daniels offers a timely, necessary, and invaluable contribution to the ongoing scholarly conversation about communication and religion. Featuring established and emerging scholars, this collection offers a fresh look at enduring and contemporary questions resting at the intersection of faith, communicative practices, and the global human community’s search for meaning.
— Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University
This remarkable edited collection covers a brilliant spectrum of contexts for the role of faith in public discourse, and demonstrates the crucial need for more of the same kind of research. Each chapter seizes the reader with a sense of relevance and currency. I highly recommend this collection, in whole or in part, for anyone studying the intersection of faith and communication.
— J. Matthew Melton, Lee University