Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith

By (author) Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels Foreword by Ronald C. Arnett Contributions by Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson, Bradley W. Griffin, Mark A. Gring, Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Kirsten L. Isgro, Christopher J. Oldenburg, Elizabeth S. Parks, Steven L. Reagles, L. Ripley Smith, Barbara S. Spies, Jacob Stutzman, Peter A. Verkruyse, Annalee R. Ward, Mark A.E. Williams, Kallia O. Wright

Publication date:

27 April 2016

Length of book:

410 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

239x158mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498515818

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and intercultural landscapes.

Introduction: Communication, Landscape, and Faith
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels

Part One: The Philosophical Landscape

Chapter 1: From Here to Eternity: The Scope of Misreading Plato's Religion
Mark A. E. Williams

Chapter 2: The Equivocal Tao of “Nature”: I.A. Richards, C. S. Lewis, and the Heresy of Coalescence
Steven L. Reagles

Part Two: The “Built” Landscape

Chapter 3: Building a House of Worship One (Agnostic) Platform at a Time
Jeffrey Bogaczyk

Chapter 4: The Tourist Gaze and the Church: Megachurch as Tourist Site
Annalee R. Ward

Chapter 5: Sanctuar(ies) for Sanctuary: A Rhetorical Analysis of Berlin’s The House of One
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels

Part Three: The Performative Landscape

Chapter 6: Salvation on the Wicked Stage: Charles Grandison Finney, Aimee Semple McPherson, and the Legacy of Faith Performance in American Revivals
Bradley W. Griffin

Chapter 7: Pope Francis’s Semiotic-Ethotic Conversion: Visual Humility, Metonymy, and Religious Mimesis
Christopher J. Oldenburg

Chapter 8: Identification and Unity: Easter Celebrations in the Holy Land
Barbara S. Spies

Chapter 9: The Public Work of Faith in Senegal: The Y’en a Marre Movement, the Marabouts, and Interfaith Cohesion
Devin Bryson

Part Four: The Political Landscape

Chapter 10: Virtues as a Horizon for Intercultural Understanding: The Roles of Faith and Nationality
L. Ripley Smith

Chapter 11: Rhetorical Tapestry: Mandela, Messianism, and Faith as a Source of Rhetorical Invention
Peter A. Verkruyse

Chapter 12: Human Price Tags and the Politics of Representation in Sex Trafficking: Christian Women’s Missionary Discourse of the 21st Century
Kirsten L. Isgro

Chapter 13: All Who Do Not Lay Their Obligations on the Same Altar: Christian Privilege, Religious Diversity, and American Political Discourse
Jacob Stutzman

Part Five: The Intercultural Landscape

Chapter 14: “This is What God Wills”: Observing Global Perspectives on the Impact of Fatalism in Health Communication
Kallia O. Wright

Chapter 15: “Moving Forward”: The Rhetoric of Social Intervention and the Presbyterian Church in America’s Cultural Outreach
Mark A. Gring

Chapter 16: Bringing Together and Setting Apart: Christianity’s Role in the Formation of Deaf Cultural Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Elizabeth S. Parks

This valuable and wide-ranging collection of essays will benefit both practitioners and scholars of religious communication. Practitioners will discover that the truths they seek, even those which are eternal and unchanging, must be communicated in infinitely variable physical and mental landscapes. Scholars will discover that religions are not simply manifestations of deeper social processes but generate supreme realities that profoundly structure believers' communication. Such understandings are vital in fostering the interfaith dialogues that are so needed in our world today.