Liturgy of Change
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Liturgy of Change

Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Liturgy of Change

Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

About this book

Original archival research invites new ways of understanding the rhetorics of the civil rights movement

In Liturgy of Change, Elizabeth Ellis Miller examines civil rights mass meetings as a transformative rhetorical, and religious, experience. Scholars of rhetoric have analyzed components of the civil rights movement, including sit ins, marches, and voter registration campaigns, as well as meeting speeches delivered by well-known figures. The mass meeting itself still is also a significant site in rhetorical studies. Miller's "liturgy of change" framework brings attention to the pattern of religious genresā€”song, prayer, and testimonyā€”that structured the events, and the ways these genres created rhetorical opportunities for ordinary people to speak up and develop their activism. To recover and reconstruct these patterns, Miller analyzes archival audio recordings of mass meetings held in Greenville and Hattisburg, Mississippi; Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham, Alabama; Savannah, Sumter, and Albany, Georgia; St. Augustine, Florida; and Danville, Virginia.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Liturgy of Change
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Series Editorā€™s Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Recovering the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
  10. ONE Becoming Hopeful: The Civil Rights Mass Meeting as Liturgy of Change
  11. TWO Sounding Civic Identity: Freedom Song Invention at the Mass Meeting
  12. THREE Embodying Peace: Prayer as Reverent Resistance
  13. FOUR Speaking Truth in Love: Testimony in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Danville, Virginia
  14. FIVE Reckoning with White Violence and Resistance: Audience(s) and the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
  15. Conclusion: Faith, Racial Justice, and Rhetorical Activism in the Twenty-First Century
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index