Spiritual modalities : prayer as rhetoric and performance /
Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine.
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Prayer: the rediscovered country
- Prayer and its situations: meditation on Kairos and Krisis
- "Hear us, o Lord": audience and address in communicating with the divine
- Invocations of spirit: prayer as speech act
- Dance of attitude: prayer as the performance of reverence
- Performing the Memorare: prayer as a rhetorical art of memory
- Bodies and spirits in virtual motion: prayer and delivery in cyberspace.