Theory and Methodology; Classical Rhetoric; American Literature; British and European Literature; Islam and Rhetoric; Political Rhetoric; Rhetoric and Composition
Theory and Methodology
Burke, Kenneth. The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Hoover, Stewart M. and Nabil Echchaibi, eds. Media and Religion: The Global View. De Gruyter Brill, 2021.
Jost, Walter and Wendy Olmsted, eds. Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Kenshur, Oscar. Dilemmas of Enlightenment: Studies in the Rhetoric and Logic of Ideology. University of California Press, 1993.
Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age. Edited by Michael-John DePalma, Paul Lynch, Ringer, Jeffrey M. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023.
Rodriguez, Amardo, ed. Essays on Communication and Spirituality: Contributions to a New Discourse on Communication. University Press of America, 2001.
Vining, James W., ed. New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion: Exploring Emerging Intersections of Religion, Public Discourse, and Rhetorical Scholarship. Bloomsbury, 2021.
Wijsen, Frans and Kocku von Stuckard, eds. Making Religion: Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion. Boston: Brill, 2016.
Classical Rhetoric
Auski, Peter. Christian Plain Style: The Evolution of a Spiritual Ideal. Montreal: MQUP, 1995.
Cameron, Averil. Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Braun, Willi. Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006.
Kainulainen, Jaska. Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition. Oxford: Taylor and Francis, 2024.
MacPhail, Eric. Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022.
Rhetoric, Scripture, and Theology: Essays from the 1994 Pretoria Conference. Rhetoric and Religion Conference. University of South Africa. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.
American Literature
Andrews, James Robertson. Rhetoric, Religion, and the Roots of Identity in British Colonial America. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007.
Darsey, James. The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America. NY: New York University Press, 1997.
David, Edward A.; MacLeod, Claire; Xu, Ning; Kelly, Phoebe; Monajed, Saadadden. The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z: From Divine Disillusionment to Simple Faith. Routledge, 2026.
Frederick, Nicholas J. The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.
Gring-Pemble, Lisa Marie and Martha Watson. Your Daughters Will Prophesy: Religion and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Movement. University of South Carolina Press, 2025.
Haddox, Thomas. Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction. Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Maydan, Liliana M. Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror. Bucknell University Press, 2016.
Mooney, Annabelle. The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Morse, Tracy Ann. Signs and Wonders: Religious Rhetoric and the Preservation of Sign Language. Gallaudet University Press, 2014.
Newcomb, Matthew. Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities: Bridging the Rhetoric Gap. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Sizer, Sandra S. Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Cenutry Revivalism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978.
Williams, Jeffrey, Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism: Taking the Kingdom by Force. Indiana University Press, 2010.
British and European Literature
Ferguson, Jamie H. Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England: Faith in the Language. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Ferrell, Lori Anne and Peter McCullough, eds. The English Sermon Revised: Religion, Literature, and History: 1600-1750. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000
Hammond, Nicolas and Michael Moriarty, eds. Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France: Essays in Honour of Peter Bayley. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.
Heady, Katy. Literature and Censorship in Restoration Germany: Repression and Rhetoric. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2009.
Lares, Jameela. Milton and the Preaching Arts. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2011.
Lessl, Thomas M. Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.
Matheson, Peter. The Rhetoric of the Reformation. New York: T & T Clark International, 1998.
Pallister, William. Between Worlds: The Rhetorical Universe of Paradise Lost. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Islam and Rhetoric
Ernst, Carl W. Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Curzon Press, 1996.
Hardman, Ben. Islam and the Métropole: A Case Study of Religion and Rhetoric in Algeria. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2009.
Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. Self and Secrecy in Early Islam. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Pennington, Rosemary and Hilary E. Kahn, eds. On Islam: Muslims and the Media. Indiana University Press, 2018.
Political Rhetoric
Bate, Bernard. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia. Edited by E. Annamalai; Francis Cody; Malarvizhi Jayanth; Constantine V. Nakassis. Stanford University Press, 2021.
Crowley, Sharon. Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
McLeod, Alan L., McLeod, Marion B., Gowdah, H.H. Anniah, eds. Representative South African Speeches: The Rhetoric of Race and Religion. University of Mysore, 1980.
Patterson, James M. Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Polk, Andrew R. Faith in Freedom: Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion. Cornell University Press, 2021.
Tell, Dave. Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.
Vincent-Arnaud, N. The Religious Rhetoric of U.S. Presidential Candidates: A Corpus Linguistics Approach to the Rhetorical God Gap. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Rhetoric and Composition
Cope, Emily Murphy. Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University. New York: Routledge, 2024.
Mattingly, Carol. Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century. Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
Van Der Lei, Elizabeth and Bonnie Lenore Kyburz. Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom. Heinemann/Boynton Cook Publishers, 2005.
Wagner, Joe. Religion in the Composition Classroom: A Pragmatic Approach. McFarland & Company Publishing, 2015.
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