The Health of Scholarship on Religion and Histories of Rhetoric

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Although we have scholarship detailing how philosophical, pedagogical, political, and socioeconomic circumstances have shaped and are shaped by the theory and practice of rhetoric in different places and times, scholars have not given sufficient attention to religion as a force shaping and shaped by rhetorical theory and practice. The panel aims to address this by exploring relationships between rhetoric and religion in different time periods, places, and practices.

Sub Unit

• American Society for the History of Rhetoric

Chair

• Daniel Emery, University of Utah

Respondent

• Peter A. Verkruyse, Illinois College