TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christopher Oldenburg
AU  - Adrienne Hacker Daniels
AU  - Sergio Peña
PY  - 2025
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034351812
TI  - Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence
T2  - Sacred Succor and Rancor
DO  - 10.3726/b22168
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1478153
N2  - Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon—both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice. This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.
KW  - Rhetoric, Religion, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Interfaith, Prayer, Violence, Peace, Public Commemoration
LA  - English
ER  -