Rhetoric, religion, and the roots of identity in British colonial America
By: edited by James R. Andrews.
Contributors: Andrews, James Robertson, 1936-
Series: A rhetorical history of the United States -- v. 1
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: East Lansing, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780870137822
Subjects: Rhetoric -- United States -- History.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.; Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.; English language -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.; Christian literature, American -- History and criticism.; United States -- Church history -- To 1775.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : roots of an American rhetoric / James R. Andrews; title: Errand into mercy : rhetoric, identity, and community in John Winthrop's Model of Christian charity / Stephen H. Browne; title: The rhetoric of Puritan biblical commentaries : John Cotton's A briefe exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes / Thomas H. Olbricht; title: Puritan rhetoric and America's civil religion : a study of three special occasion sermons / Ronald F. Reid; title: Roger Williams, religious liberty, and the Massachusetts Bay : a rhetorical history perspective / L. Raymond Camp; title: The trials of Anne Hutchinson / William Wiethof; title: Among friends : establishing an oratorical tradition among Quaker women in the early colonial era / Linda Webster; title: Thou art but a youth : Thomas Chalkley enacts and defends the early Quaker impromptu sermon / Michael P. Graves; title: Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening and Sinners in the hands of an angry God / John C. Adams and Stephen R. Yarbrough; title: Rhetoric and religion in colonial Virginia : from the Great Awakening to the Declaration of Independence / C. Jan Swearingen.