This timely collection analyzes how religious rhetorics function in public activism and political discourse. Chapters range across time from early nineteenth-century America to the Trump era. A variety of religious orientations are considered, from evangelical Christianity to Catholicism to Islam. Rhetoric’s contemporary multimodality is represented in treatments of politically motivated music, protest demonstrations, Facebook posts, and tweets. Concluding chapters trace the implications for rhetorical scholarship of religious rhetorics’ increasing ubiquity in public life. New Directions in Rhetoric andReligion will soon find a generative place in graduate seminars and on scholars’ shelves—including mine.
