Spiritual Modalities : : Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance / / William FitzGerald.
A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and attitud...
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FitzGerald, William, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Spiritual Modalities : Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance / William FitzGerald. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2016] ©2012 1 online resource (168 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Prayer: The Rediscovered Country -- 1 Prayer and Its Situations: Meditation on Kairos and Krisis -- 2 “Hear Us, O Lord”: Audience and Address in Communicating with the Divine -- 3 Invocations of Spirit: Prayer as Speech Act -- 4 The Dance of Attitude: Prayer as the Performance of Reverence -- 5 Performing the Memorare: Prayer as a Rhetorical Art of Memory -- 6 Bodies and Spirits in Virtual Motion: Prayer and Delivery in Cyberspace -- Conclusion: Does Rhetoric Have a Prayer? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and attitudes, to advance an understanding of prayer as a basic expression of our rhetorical capacities for communication and communion. This groundbreaking analysis demonstrates how prayer draws on fundamental capacities to engage other beings rhetorically to argue that we are never more human than when we address the nonhuman. Spiritual Modalities is notable in its aim to articulate a critical rhetoric of prayer in a secular idiom. It draws on contributions to rhetorical theory from Kenneth Burke along with a broad range of classical and contemporary perspectives on audience, address, speech acts, and modes of performance. The book also takes a multicultural and multimodal approach to prayer as rhetorical performance. The texts and practices of prayer represented range across religious traditions and historical eras and include both verbal and physical modes of divine address. The book will be of interest to scholars researching religious language, Burkean approaches to discourse, practices of memory, and media studies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) Performance. Prayer. Rhetoric. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. bisacsh Communication Studies. Modalities: prayer and rhetoric. Religious Studies Religion Spiritua. Rhetorical Studies. William FitzGerald. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271060507?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271060507 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271060507/original |
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