Rhetoric, religion, and the roots of identity in British colonial America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Andrews, James Robertson, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2007]
Series:Rhetorical history of the United States ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : roots of an "American" rhetoric / James R. Andrews
  • Errand into mercy : rhetoric, identity, and community in John Winthrop's "Modell of Christian charity" / Stephen Howard Browne
  • The rhetoric of Puritan biblical commentaries : John Cotton's A briefe exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes / Thomas H. Olbricht
  • Puritan rhetoric and America's civil religion : a study of three special occasion sermons / Ronald F. Reid
  • Roger Williams, religious liberty, and the Massachusetts Bay : a rhetorical history perspective / L. Raymond Camp
  • The trials of Anne Hutchinson / William E. Wiethof
  • Among friends : establishing an oratorical tradition among Quaker women in the early colonial era / Linda J. Webster
  • Thou art but a youth : Thomas Chalkley enacts and defends the early Quaker impromptu sermon / Michael P. Graves
  • Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening and "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / John C. Adams and Stephen R. Yarbrough
  • Rhetoric and religion in colonial Virginia : from the Great Awakening to the Declaration of Independence / C. Jan Swearingen.