Wednesday, November 20, 2024

10:30am-11:45am

Session 2A
Azalea Room

Vice President’s Roundtable | Black Feminist Voices for Greater Cultural Regard in Religious and Other Spaces

Chair: Annette Madlock, Independent Scholar

Presenters:
Kami J. Anderson, Independent Scholar
Dianna Watkins-Dickerson, University of Memphis
Kimberly P. Johnson, Tennessee State University
Melva Sampson, Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Natonya Blackmon Listach, Middle Tennessee State University 

Session 2B

St. Charles Room

The Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Religion: Regarding the Disregarded Description

Chair: L. Ripley Smith, Bethel University

The Long Shadow of William Jennings Bryan’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric: The Political “Prince of Peace” and the Imago Dei, Randall Fowler, Abilene Christian University

Regard for Missions: A Movement Stage Analysis of the SVM (Student Volunteer Movement) with Emphasis on the Rhetoric and Strategies Used by Three Prominent Leaders: Robert Wilder, A.T. Pierson, and John Mott, and Its Eventual Decline into Disregard, Cecil Kramer, Liberty University

Piety in Plato’s Euthyphro: A Virtue at the Intersection of Politics and Religion, David Gore, University of Minnesota Duluth

Session 2C
Canal Room

RCA 2024 Scholarship Awards Panel I

Chair: Theon Hill, Wheaton College

Mentor of the Year: No Award Given

Book Chapter of the Year: Mark Ward, University of Houston, Victoria.

“Toward a Theory of Divine Communication? Prospects and Problems,” in God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication. 

Dissertation of the Year: Arthur J. Bamford, University of Colorado.

“New and Improved: Protestant Revivalism and the Origins of Modern American Advertising.”

Session 2D

Bourbon Room

Works in Progress-2

Chair: TBA

Do You Condemn Hamas? How Linguistic Terrorism Attempts to Conscript Potential Resistance, E. Michelle Ledder, Metropolitian AME Church

Pivotal Moments and Spiritual Practices: Exploring the Communication of Belonging in Christian Faith, Dorothy Andreas, Abilene Christian University

Rhetorical Analysis of Carlton Pearson’s Universalist Rhetoric and Persuasion, Carl Frederick Hill, University of Memphis

“Homos or Bros? Rembrandt, Male Friendship, and the Constitutive Character of David and Jonathan in Portrait Art”, Jodeyah Mills, Abeline Christian University

The [Prophetic] Fire Next Time: The Dialectic of Belonging and Exile In James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, Thomas Fuerst, Memphis Theological Seminary

The Horizon Zero Dawn series: Is a secular escape from religion impossible?, Kevin Schut, Trinity Western University