The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States

Herausgeber: Miller, Eric C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholars consider twelve contemporary controversies with attention to arguments, evidence, and strategy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781498561501
• ISBN-10: 1498561500
• Artikelnr.: 59080098

Autorenporträt

Eric C. Miller is assistant professor of communication studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Eric C. Miller
Chapter 1
Reinhold Niebuhr's Rhetorical Legacy: Democratic Community and Religious
Freedom
Cody Hawley
Chapter 2
Persuasive Ambassadors: The Southern Baptist Commitment to Religious
Freedom for All
Michael Strawser, Matthew Hawkins, and Joe C. Martin
Chapter 3
Differing Definitions: How Conservative Evangelicals and Mainline
Protestants Frame Freedom
Stephanie A. Martin
Chapter 4
Negotiating Religious Freedom in US Catholic Responses to Vaccine Science
Miles C. Coleman
Chapter 5
Freedom for Whom? The Contested Terrain of Religious Freedom for Muslims in
the United States
Adam Smidi and Lara Lengel
Chapter 6
"Not About Discrimination:" Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and the
Question of Intent
Eric C. Miller
Chapter 7
Religious Freedom and the Marketplace
James T. Petre
Chapter 8
Kim Davis vs. the Gay(ze): A Problematic Response to Religious Freedom
Advocates
Sarah Walker
Chapter 9
Evangelized Scandals: Religious Freedom and Cultural Politics at Wheaton
College
Robin Reames
Chapter 10
Environmental Protection and Religious Freedom: The Case of the Dakota
Access Pipeline
Elizabeth A. Petre
Chapter 11
"What Do You Have to Lose?" Donald Trump, Religious Freedom, and the
African American Vote
Andre E. Johnson
Chapter 12
Is Trump Also Among the Fundamentalists? Religious Freedom and the Fight to
Repeal the Johnson Amendment
Jonathan J. Edwards
About the Contributors