TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ballif,Michelle
AU  - Bernard-Donals,Michael
AU  - Bessette,Jean
AU  - Conner,Trey
AU  - Doyle,Richard
AU  - Frank,David
AU  - Gross,Daniel M.
AU  - Hamilton,Kevin
AU  - Haynes,Cynthia
AU  - Jensen,Kyle
AU  - Mailloux,Steven
AU  - Martel,James R.
AU  - Nicotra,Jodie
AU  - O’Gorman,Ned
AU  - Rollins,Brooke
TI  - Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric 
SN  - 9780271089577
U1  - 210 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
KW  - Holy, The
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Sacred
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part 1. Sacred Encounters --; 1 Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords --; 2 Engaging a Rhetorical God --; 3 Political Theologies of Sacred Rhetoric --; 4 How to Undo Truths with Words --; 5 Chanting the Supreme Word of Information --; Part 2. Sacred Practices --; 6 Hacking the Sacred (or Not) --; 7 Divining Rhetoric’s Future --; 8 Where Is the Nuclear Sovereign? --; 9 From the Cathedral to the Casino --; 10 Rightness in Retrospect --; 11 Historiography and the Limits of (Sacred) Rhetoric --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - With language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred, however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by language. The sacred thus reveals limitations to rhetoric.Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The contributors engage with religious rhetorics—Jewish, Jesuit, Buddhist, pagan—as well as rationalist, scientific, and postmodern rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the Platonic tradition, Thomas Hobbes’s and Walter Benjamin’s accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Hélène Cixous’s sacred passages and passwords. From these studies, new definitions of the sacred emerge—along with new rhetorical practices for engaging with the sacred.This book provides insight into the relation of rhetoric and the sacred, showing the capacity of rhetoric to study the ineffable but also shedding light on the boundaries between them
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271089737?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271089737
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271089737/original
ER  -