Spiritual Modalities : : Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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FitzGerald, William,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2016]
©2012
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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