Spiritual modalities
Subtitle: prayer as rhetoric and performance
By: William FitzGerald
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, Penn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271056227
Subjects: Performance; Rhetoric; Prayer
Description: "Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prayer: the rediscovered country; title: Prayer and its situations: meditation on Kairos and Krisis; title: "Hear us, o Lord": audience and address in communicating with the divine; title: Invocations of spirit: prayer as speech act; title: Dance of attitude: prayer as the performance of reverence; title: Performing the Memorare: prayer as a rhetorical art of memory; title: Bodies and spirits in virtual motion: prayer and delivery in cyberspace.