RHETORIC AND REALITY IN EARLY CHRISTIANITIES by Willi Braun (Editor), Willi Braun (Editor) ( 9780889209138 )

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Title:

RHETORIC AND REALITY IN EARLY CHRISTIANITIES

By:

Willi Braun (Editor), Willi Braun (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0889209138

ISBN 13:

9780889209138

Publisher:

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 2006

Synopsis:

One of the most pressing issues for scholars of religion concerns the role of persuasion in early Christianities and other religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. The essays in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities explore questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The contributors theorize about persuasion as the effect of verbal performances, such as argumentation in accordance with rules of rhetoric, or as a result of other types of performance: ritual, behavioural, or imagistic. They discuss the relationship between the verbal performance of rhetoric and other performative modes in generating, sustaining, and transmitting a persuasive form of religiosity. The essays in this book cover a wide chronological range (from the first century to late antiquity) and diverse topical examples contribute to the collections thematic centre: the relations among formalized and technical verbal performances (rhetoric, texts) and other forms of persuasive performances (ritual, practices), the social agendas that early Christians pursued by means of verbal, rhetorical performances, and the larger social context in which Christians and other religious groups competitively jockeyed to attract the minds and bodies of audiences in the Greco-Roman world.

Publication:

Canada

Imprint:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

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