| Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination Contributor(s): Stull, Bradford T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791420817 ISBN-13: 9780791420812 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Anthropology |
| Dewey: 233 |
| LCCN: 93039435 |
| Series: Suny Rhetoric and Theology |
| Physical Information: (1.00 lbs) 196 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the possibility of a "liberatory postmodern rhetoric" or, alternatively, a "postmodern liberation rhetoric." The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain? After a foray into key terms--rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion--the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador. |
