Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse

Jeffrey M. Ringer is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of several articles and book chapters. With Michael-John DePalma, he edited Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories, which won the Religious Communication Association’s 2015 Book of the Year award.

• 1. From Problem to Possibility: Evangelical Christian Students, Composition Studies, and Civil Discourse 2. Vernacular Religious Creativity: Lived Religion and Evangelical Christianity 3. Creating Deliberative Conversation: Toward Inventional Creativity 4. Effective Witness, Faithful Witness: Austin, Casuistic Stretching, and the Desire for Legitimacy 5. The Problem and Possibility of Ethos: Articulating Faith in Kimberly’s Schooled Writing 6. Changing the Way We Speak: Eloise, Inclusion, and Constitutive Rhetoric 7. Coming to Terms: Toward a Pedagogy of Values Articulation Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: The National Study of Youth and Religion as Context

"I find Jeff Ringer’s scholarship to be outstanding: in what it offers to the field, in its use of empirical research, in its conclusions, and in its recommendations. The goal of this book—improving our chances of engaging in civil discourse—is terrifically important, and Ringer helps readers see a path toward accomplishing that goal." --Elizabeth Vander Lei, Calvin College, USA"Ringer introduces a novel focus into discussions of religious students in the classroom, emphasizing that the current generation should be understood as ‘millennial evangelicals,’ who are much more open to dialogue with different views than their elders may have been." -- Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross, USA