Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance by William FitzGerald
By William FitzGerald
A daring recasting of prayer as a rhetorical artwork, Spiritual Modalities investigates events, concepts, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. analyzing how prayer “works,” non secular Modalities reads prayer’s events and techniques, its attribute acts and attitudes, to increase an figuring out of prayer as a simple expression of our rhetorical capacities for communique and communion. This groundbreaking research demonstrates how prayer attracts on primary capacities to have interaction different beings rhetorically to argue that we're by no means extra human than once we tackle the nonhuman.
Spiritual Modalities is remarkable in its objective to articulate a serious rhetoric of prayer in an earthly idiom. It attracts on contributions to rhetorical conception from Kenneth Burke in addition to a large variety of classical and modern views on viewers, handle, speech acts, and modes of functionality. The publication additionally takes a multicultural and multimodal method of prayer as rhetorical functionality. The texts and practices of prayer represented variety throughout non secular traditions and ancient eras and comprise either verbal and actual modes of divine deal with. The e-book should be of curiosity to students discovering spiritual language, Burkean methods to discourse, practices of reminiscence, and media studies.
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