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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Rise of Christian Sects
1. Constructing Devout Feminists: A Mormon Case
2. A Rhetoric of Opposition: The Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Sabbath Tradition
The Rise of Female Rhetors
3. Preaching from the Pulpit Steps: Mary Bosanquet Fletcher and Women’s Preaching in Early Methodism
4. “With the Tongue of [Wo]men and Angels”: Apostolic Rhetorical Practices Among Religious Women
5. Rhetorical Strategies in Protestant Women’s Missions: Appropriating and Subverting Gender Ideals
The Rise of Academic Concern about American Christian Fundamentalism
6. “Attentive, Intelligent, Reasonable, and Responsible”: Teaching Composition with Bernard Lonergan
7.“Ain’t We Got Fun?”: Teaching Writing in a Violent World
8. A Question of Truth: Reading the Bible, Rhetoric, and Christian Tradition
Rhetoric in Christian Tradition
9. The Jewish Context of Paul’s Rhetoric
10. Resistance to Rhetoric in Christian Tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index