In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and intercultural landscapes.
In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and intercultural landscapes.
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
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels is professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Illinois College.
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*
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