{"product_id":"spiritual-modalities-william-fitzgerald-9780271056227","title":"Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Modalities\u003c\/i\u003e investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer \"works,\"\u003ci\u003e Spiritual Modalities\u003c\/i\u003e reads prayer's situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and attitudes, to advance an understanding of prayer as a basic expression of our rhetorical capacities for communication and communion. This groundbreaking analysis demonstrates how prayer draws on fundamental capacities to engage other beings rhetorically to argue that we are never more human than when we address the nonhuman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Modalities\u003c\/i\u003e is notable in its aim to articulate a critical rhetoric of prayer in a secular idiom. It draws on contributions to rhetorical theory from Kenneth Burke along with a broad range of classical and contemporary perspectives on audience, address, speech acts, and modes of performance. The book also takes a multicultural and multimodal approach to prayer as rhetorical performance. The texts and practices of prayer represented range across religious traditions and historical eras and include both verbal and physical modes of divine address. The book will be of interest to scholars researching religious language, Burkean approaches to discourse, practices of memory, and media studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271056223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271056227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.44w x 0.69d","brand":"William Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064810418431,"sku":"9780271056227","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7f92427-ac44-4dfa-8954-fe9ccb3dfcec.jpg?v=1768671179","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spiritual-modalities-william-fitzgerald-9780271056227","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}