Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse

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Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse

The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers

Communication studies Sociology Moral and social purpose of education Educational strategies and policy Higher education, tertiary education Teaching skills and techniques Teaching of a specific subject Politics and government Religion and politics Christianity

Author: Jeffrey M. Ringer

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Collection: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 5th February 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 6 Mb

ISBN: 9781317357100


Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals that the evangelical Christian faith of contemporary college students—and the rhetorical practice motivated by it—is marked by an openness to social context and pluralism that offers possibilities for civil discourse. Based on case studies of evangelical Christian student writers, contextualized within nationally-representative trends as reported by the National Study of Youth and Religion, and grounded in scholarship from rhetorical theory, composition studies, folklore studies, and sociology of religion, this book offers rhetorical educators a new terministic screen that reveals the complex processes at work within our students’ vernacular constructions of religious faith.

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