slow freewriting on my thesis… religion un-make-critical-able?

Critical review of issue, like Lisa’s Audience article — may be exactly what’s needed, especially if the response of many in the field is “Well, of course, religion ought not to be excluded — as an identity alongside race, gender, age, culture, class, location, political views, etc, and as a massively crucial issue in the [...]

notes from my conversation with Chris this afternoon re my thesis

Notes from my conversation with Chris this afternoon about my thesis.
James L. Kinneavy’s Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith: An Inquiry (New York: Oxford UP, 1987).
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1873788.pdf
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/oct1988/v45-3-bookreview8.htm
Steven L. Carter’s Culture of Disbelief
David Tracy’s Plurality and Ambiguity (re Augustine and composition studies both emphasizing meaning as thick, relative)
Compare Christian social justice with Composition’s service learning?
Lisa’s Situating Composition: [...]

a start on a bibliography on religion in the writing classroom

Anderson, Chris. “The Description of an Embarrassment: When Students Write about Religion.” ADE Bulletin 094 (Winter 1989): 12-15. (I have a digital copy.) Addendum 01-14-08: here’s a link to this article: http://web2.ade.org/ade/bulletin/n094/094012.htm
Dively, Ronda Leathers. “Censoring Religious Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom: What We and Our Students May Be Missing.” Composition Studies/Freshman English News, v25 [...]

Project Ijtihad against the order of discourse

I just came from my Rhetorical Tradition class and from our discussion of Foucault’s “The Order of Discourse.” And I was just reading about Irshad Manji and her Project Ijtihad (the Muslim tradition of critical thinking). Great stuff. Wow, I am so impressed and inspired by Irshad Manji. I’m glad there are people out [...]

Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene!

Oh my gosh, too funny! Check this out. Here’s another good example of the power of reverse rhetoric to add to my collection. WordPress won’t let me embed the video apparently, so here’s the link: Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene. The gay Christian part of me just loves this and laughs [...]

Vicki Tolar Burton article on John Wesley (note to self: get a copy)

Vicki Tolar Burton, “John Wesley and the Liberty to Speak: The Rhetorical and Literacy Practices of Early Methodism.” College Composition and Communication, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Sep., 2001), pp. 65-91 doi:10.2307/359063
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-096X(200109)53%3A1%3C65%3AJWATLT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y#abstract

Link to “New Testament, Byzantine, Patristic and Early Medieval Rhetoric: Selected Sources”

For future reference, a short bibliography from Wake Forest University: New Testament, Byzantine, Patristic and Early Medieval Rhetoric: Selected Sources.

Spiritual Sites of Composing

Berthoff, Ann E., et al. “Interchanges: Spiritual Sites of Composing.” College Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 237-63.
A couple weeks ago I picked up a dozen or so CCC journals (mostly from the early 90s, I think) outside the English department (an instructor had left them for anyone to take — and what a [...]