Rhetoric and Religious Experience: The Discourse of Immigrant Chinese Churches - Couverture rigide

Palinkas, Lawrence A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0913969273 ISBN 13 : 9780913969274

Editeur : George Mason University Press, 1990

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Lawrence A. Palinkas is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at University of California, San Diego.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: George Mason University Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0913969273
• ISBN 13: 9780913969274
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible