Authors: Sharon Crowley
ISBN-13: 9780822959236, ISBN-10: 0822959232
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
Sharon Crowley is professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Composition in the University, The Methodical Memory, and the textbook Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students.
Looks at ways to encourage American public discussion of issues that matter to democracy, particularly hoping to find arguments that can reach across the divide between liberalism and Christian fundamentalism in the discussion of civic issues.
1 | On (not) arguing about religion and politics | 1 |
2 | Speaking of rhetoric | 24 |
3 | Belief and passionate commitment | 58 |
4 | Apocalyptism | 102 |
5 | Ideas do have consequences : apocalyptism and the Christian Right | 133 |
6 | The truth is out there : acpocalyptism and conspiracy | 165 |
7 | How beliefs change | 189 |