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