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    This document provides an overview and introduction to key concepts for understanding sacred rhetoric and its history. It discusses: 1) The standard story in rhetorical studies that pits rhetoric against philosophy, but argues religion is intertwined with both. 2) Sacred rhetorics aim to promote orientations or ways of being in the world through habits and liturgy. 3) Religious speech is described as "person-giving" in that it draws people together rather than conveying information or forming identities. 4) Secularization involved changes where immanent or natural explanations are viewed as prior to supernatural ones, constituting an "immanent frame" that can feel alienating to believers.

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    This document provides an overview and introduction to key concepts for understanding sacred rhetoric and its history. It discusses: 1) The standard story in rhetorical studies that pits rhetoric against philosophy, but argues religion is intertwined with both. 2) Sacred rhetorics aim to promote orientations or ways of being in the world through habits and liturgy. 3) Religious speech is described as "person-giving" in that it draws people together rather than conveying information or forming identities. 4) Secularization involved changes where immanent or natural explanations are viewed as prior to supernatural ones, constituting an "immanent frame" that can feel alienating to believers.

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    why rhetoricians religion :


    a counter-history of sacred rhetoric § matt miller § saint louis university

    guide to terminology

    The IJsseling Story: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict


    Samuel IJsseling’s Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict offers the starkest example of this
    standard story in rhetorical studies, which sets rhetoric and philosophy in primeval con-
    flict. Rhetoric pursues emotion/context/power, while philosophy seeks truth/goodness.
    Many rhetorical histories employ this dialectic.

    A Speculative Sacred Rhetoric


    Following Deborah Shuger, if we consider the interaction of religion with rhetoric and
    philosophy, the IJsseling Story is insufficient: religion concerns itself with emotion and
    truth, and is thus bound up throughout rhetorical history. By thinking about religious
    rhetoric religiously, we can see more clearly how the sacred is imbued throughout the
    history of rhetoric.

    Orientation
    Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change describes orientation as a bundle of judgments
    producing self-perpetuating interpretations of the world, “creating the measures by
    which it shall be measured.” An orientation is a framework, a way of being in the world.
    Sacred rhetorics that promote habits (as through liturgy) or ways of life pursue an orien-
    tation.

    Person-giving
    Bruno Latour characterizes religious speech as “presence-enhancing or person-giving.”
    Rather than connecting the audience to transcendent facts (as in science) or forming
    an identity (as in politics), sacred rhetoric gives people to one another, brings attention
    to the here and now. As with the statement “I love you,” the point is not to convey new
    information but to draw people together.

    The Immanent Frame


    In A Secular Age, Charles Taylor characterizes secularization as about more than the loss
    of belief as such; it includes changes in the imaginative conditions of belief. In modernity, im-
    manent explanations are taken as prior to the supernatural, the “real” explanation—this
    set of assumptions constitutes “the immanent frame.” For believers, this frame can feel
    alienating or impersonal.

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