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Spiritual Modalities : Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance /
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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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