Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence

Sacred Succor and Rancor

Christopher Oldenburg, Adrienne Hacker Daniels (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-5183-6 (ISBN)

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Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon—both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.
This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.

Christopher J. Oldenburg is Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and Chair of the Communication Arts Department at Illinois College. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Pope Francis: Critical Mercy and Conversion for the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books, 2018) Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award 2019. Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels is the A. Boyd Pixley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Illinois College. She is editor of the volume, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith (2016). Her second edited volume, Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theatre and Drama: Taking Center Stage is forthcoming 2024.

Foreword – List of Rhetors – Introduction – Race, Gender, and Violence – Part 1: Joseph Biden, "100th Anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre", 2021 – Part 2: Sojourner Truth, "Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio", 1851 – LGBTQ and Violence – Part 1: "Harvey Milk vs. John Briggs" Televised debate transcription, 1978 – Part 2: Tony Kushner, "Matthew’s Passion", 1998 – Geopolitics, Violence, and Remembrance: "Interfaith Meeting with Pope Francis at September 11 Memorial and Museum", 2015 – Education and Violence: Barack Obama and Interfaith Speakers, "Interfaith Prayer Vigil Address at Newtown High School," 2012 – Religion and Violence – Part 1: Julius Streicher, "The Night of Broken Glass", 1938 – Part 2: Josef Schuster, "80th Anniversary of Reichspogromnacht", 2018 – Borders/Immigration and Violence – Part 1: Jefferson Sessions, "Zero Tolerance Policy Speech", June 2018 – Part 2: Pope Francis, "Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis at Ciudad Juárez Fair Grounds" Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. February 17, 2016 – Afterword – Notes.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Speaking of Religion ; 4
Nachwort	Sergio Peña
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	355 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
Schlagworte	adrienne • Brown • Christianity • Christopher • Daniel • Daniels • Hacker • Interfaith • Islam • Judaism • Oldenburg • Peace • Peña • Prayer • public commemoration • rancor • Religion • rhetoric • Sacred • sergio • succor • tragic • Violence
ISBN-10	3-0343-5183-6 / 3034351836
ISBN-13	978-3-0343-5183-6 / 9783034351836
Zustand	Neuware