The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States
Contributions by Miles C. Coleman, Jonathan J. Edwards, Matthew Hawkins, Cody Hawley, Andre E. Johnson, Lara Lengel, Joe C. Martin, Stephanie A. Martin Southern Methodist University, Eric C. Miller Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth A. Petre, James T. Petre, Robin Reames, Adam Smidi, Michael G. Strawser, Sarah Walker Edited by Eric C. Miller Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Publication date:
22 November 2017Length of book:
232 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
236x162mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781498561488
Though much has already been written on religious freedom in the United States, these treatments have come mostly from historians, legal scholars, and advocates, with relatively little attention from rhetorical critics. In The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider the arguments, evidences, and strategies defining what religious freedom means and who is entitled to claim it in the contemporary United States.
Miller has collected a number of diverse and useful rhetorical studies to demonstrate the importance of religious freedom in the contemporary public imaginary and its representative discourse. It is a welcome addition to and unique representation of rhetorical scholarship.