Rhetoric and Religious Experience
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Rhetoric and Religious Experience

The Discourse of Immigrant Chinese Churches

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eBook - ePub

Rhetoric and Religious Experience

The Discourse of Immigrant Chinese Churches

About this book

This is a book about religious rhetoric, its cultural foundations, and its role in articulating sociocultural change and facilitating psychosocial adaptation to the demands of a new environment. It draws its inspiration from the work of F.G. Bailey, Kenneth Burke, and James Fernandez, and focuses on the ethnography of religious discourse as it relates to Chinese immigrant churches. Contents:Introduction: The Force of Words; The Arena of Religious Discourse; Orators and Audiences; The Public Discourse; Two Sermons; A Model of Chinese Christian Rhetoric and Its Origins; The Chinese Christian World View; Church Unity and Social Conflict; Personal Disorder and the Quest for Identity; Leadership and Religious Authority; and Identification and Transformation.

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Information

Publisher
University Publishing Association
Year
1989
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781461723813
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Church

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter 1. Introduction: The Force of Words
  3. Chapter 2. The Arena of Religious Discourse
  4. Chapter 3. Orators and Audiences
  5. Chapter 4. The Public Discourse
  6. Chapter 5. Two Sermons
  7. Chapter 6. A Model of Chinese Christian Rhetoric and Its Origins
  8. Chapter 7. The Chinese Christian World View
  9. Chapter 8. Church Unity and Social Conflict
  10. Chapter 9. Personal Disorder and the Quest for Identity
  11. Chapter 10. Leadership and Religious Authority
  12. Chapter 11. Identification and Transformation
  13. References
  14. Appendix

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