{"product_id":"rhetoric-religion-and-tragic-violence-sergio-peza-9783034351836","title":"Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence: Sacred Succor and Rancor","description":"\u003cp\u003eSacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon-both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric\/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sergio Peña\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3034351836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783034351836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Sergio Peña","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486775718143,"sku":"9783034351836","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b299a864-301a-4049-bf3d-238fabdd8108.jpg?v=1778056639","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rhetoric-religion-and-tragic-violence-sergio-peza-9783034351836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}