Session 3: 1:30pm-2:45pm

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

1:30pm-2:45pm

Session 3A
Azalea Room

Regarding the Disregarded: Religious Communities and Thinkers, Franz Fanon’s “The Damned of the Earth,” and Engagement with Injustice

Chair: Kellie Carstensen, University of Memphis

The Rhetorical Power of Pain: Analyzing James Baldwin’s “The Uses of the Blues,” Theon Hill, Wheaton College

Women’s Advice Ministries: The Rhetoric of Equivalence, Sarah Kornfield, Hope College

Regarding Friendship in Place-based Development for Colleges and Universities, Craig Mattson, Calvin University

The Natural World as “the Damned of the Earth”: Decolonizing Clifford Christians’ Account of Human Dignity and the Persistent Problem of Anthropocentrism, Naaman Wood, Saint Paul College

Session 3B
St. Charles Room

Communicating Leadership through Greater Regard for Religious Communication: Four Case Studies

Chair: Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University

Panelists:

New England Elijah: The Prophetic Rise of Senator Bernie Sanders, Randall Fowler, Abilene Christian University
Nicholas of Cusa on Leading with Blurred Vision, Michael Kearney, Dordt University
Howard Thurman: Model of Religious Communication Leadership, Leah Nelson, Duquesne University
Fr. Vincent Donovan: Model of Spiritan Leadership, Janie Fritz, Duquesne University

 

Session 3C
Canal Room

To Include or Not to Include, Is It Really a Question? On Discussing The (Dis)Placement of Inclusion in Religious Discourses

Chair: Lakelyn E. Taylor, University of Vermont

Care, Concern, and Community in the Preaching Classroom, Michelle Shaw, Belmont University

The National Prayer Breakfast 2016-2023: Presidential Rhetorics of Religious Inclusion and Exclusion, Andrea Terry, California State University, Sacramento

Mollifying Mormon Women: A Critical Assessment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ Instagram Posts about Women and the Priesthood, Nance Heise, Texas A&M University

Neuroqueer Rhetorical Theology: Advocating for Liberation, Not Cures, Joshua Miller, Independent Scholar

Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism: Towards an Inclusive Gospel, Lionnell Smith, San Francisco State University 

 

Session 4C

Bourbon Room

Works in Progress-3

Chair: TBA

BIPOC Feminism and Spiritual Expression, Annette Madlock, Independent Scholar

I Am That I May Be: A Creative Theological Take on Black Mental Health, Madison “Mocha” Hunter, University of Memphis

Analysis of Kamala Harris’s DNC speech, Jackie Lyde, Duquesne University

Evangelical Covenant Church Women in Leadership, Monica Reeves, Kansas State University

Disenfranchised Grief and the Loss of Children, Janie Dowdy Dandridge, University of Memphis