Bibliography:

Carter, Stephen. The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Couture, Barbara. “Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric: What’s at Stake?” In Couture, Barbara and Thomas Kent, eds. The Private, The Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric. Logan, UT: Utah State P, 2004. 1-13.

Fitzgerald, Lauren. “Torah U’ Madda: Institutional ‘ Mission’ and Composition Instruction.” In Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom. Eds. Elizabeth Vander Lei and bonnie kyburz. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 2005. 141-154.

Marsden, George. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.

Moss, Beverly. “From Pews to Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy.” In Literacy in African American Communities. Eds Joyce Harris, Alan Kamhi, and Karen Pollack. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. 195-211.

Perkins, Priscilla. “’A Radical Conversion of the Mind’: Fundamentalism, Hermeneutics, and the Metanoic Classroom.” College English 63 (2001): 585-611.

Peters, Brad. “African American Students of Faith in the Writing Center: Facilitating a Rhetoric of Conscience.” In In Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom. Eds. Elizabeth Vander Lei and bonnie kyburz. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 2005. 121-134.

Rand, Lizbeth A. “Enacting Faith: Evangelical Discourse and the Discipline of Composition Studies.” College Composition and Communication 52 (2001): 349-67.

Richardson, Elaine. African American Literacies. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Smart, Juanita. “’Frankenstein or Jesus Christ?’: When the Voice of Faith Creates a Monster for the Composition Teacher.” In Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom. Eds. Elizabeth Vander Lei and bonnie kyburz. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 2005. 11-23.

Welch, Nancy. “Resisting the Faith: Conversion, Resistance, and the Training of Teachers.” College English 55 (1993): 387-401.

Williams, Bronwyn. “The Book and the Truth: Faith, Rhetoric, and Cross-Cultural Communication.” In Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom. Eds. Elizabeth Vander Lei and bonnie kyburz. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 2005. 105-120.

Web resources:

• The website American Rhetoric has a page on Christian rhetoric that offers texts of speeches, bibliographies, and other links. Some of these resources address religion in general http://www.americanrhetoric.com/index.htm
• Mark Gellis’ “The Second Rhetoric Page at Kettering University” offers links under the topic of rhetoric and religion, particularly Judaism: http://www.kettering.edu/%7Emgellis/GMI_Pg2.htm
• The Symposium on Rhetoric and Christian Tradition offers a bibliography that contains items on religion in general as well as Christianity in particular. This bibliography will be updated to correspond to the meeting of the Symposium’s SIG at 4C’s in which five research groups will present fuller bibliographies and highlight research opportunities: www.calvin.edu/rhetoricandchristiantradition

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