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Rhetoric and Religious Experience
The Discourse of Immigrant Chinese Churches
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1989
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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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Copyright year
1989
ISBN-Print
978-0-913969-27-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-2381-3
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
304
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TABLE OF CONTENTS No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Force of Words No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 2. The Arena of Religious Discourse No access Pages 19 - 44
Chapter 3. Orators and Audiences No access Pages 45 - 70
Chapter 4. The Public Discourse No access Pages 71 - 104
Chatper 5. Two Sermons No access Pages 105 - 134
Chapter 6. A Model of Chinese Christian Rhetoric and Its Origins No access Pages 135 - 160
Chapter 7. The Chinese Christian World View No access Pages 161 - 188
Chapter 8. Church Unity and Social Conflict No access Pages 189 - 212
Chapter 9. Personal Disorder and the Quest for Identity No access Pages 213 - 242
Chapter 10. Leadership and Religious Authority No access Pages 243 - 266
Chapter 11. Identification and Transformation No access Pages 267 - 276
