Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals that the evangelical Christian faith of contemporary college studentsand the rhetorical practice motivated by itis marked by an openness to social context and pluralism that offers possibilities for civil discourse. Based on case studies of evangelical Christian student writers, contextualized within nationally-representative trends as reported by the National Study of Youth and Religion, and grounded in scholarship from rhetorical theory, composition studies, folklore studies, and sociology of religion, this book offers rhetorical educators a new terministic screen that reveals the complex processes at work within our students vernacular constructions of religious faith.
1. From Problem to Possibility: Evangelical Christian Students,
Composition Studies, and Civil Discourse
2. Vernacular Religious Creativity:
Lived Religion and Evangelical Christianity
3. Creating Deliberative
Conversation: Toward Inventional Creativity
4. Effective Witness, Faithful
Witness: Austin, Casuistic Stretching, and the Desire for Legitimacy
5. The
Problem and Possibility of Ethos: Articulating Faith in Kimberlys Schooled
Writing
6. Changing the Way We Speak: Eloise, Inclusion, and Constitutive
Rhetoric
7. Coming to Terms: Toward a Pedagogy of Values Articulation
Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: The National Study of Youth and Religion
as Context
Jeffrey M. Ringer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of several articles and book chapters. With Michael-John DePalma, he edited Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories, which won the Religious Communication Associations 2015 Book of the Year award.
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