The Religious Communication Association is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 awards.

 

Scholar of the Year

Mark Ward, Sr., University of Houston-Victoria

Book of the Year

Paul Lynch, St. Louis University. Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard. Penn State University Press, 2024

Edited Book of the Year

Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston-Victoria. God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication. Peter Lang, 2023

Journal of Communication and Religion (JCR) Article of the Year

Leland G. Spencer, University of South Carolina and Timothy S. Forest, University of Cincinnati. “The Iron Lady’s Capitalist Christianity: Margaret Thatcher’s Rhetorical Theology.” Journal of Communication and Religion 46, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 29-40.

Article of the Year

Kerith M. Woodyard, Northern Illinois University. “From Cuneiform to Comic: Redrawing Sarah in R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 35(2): 72-95. 2023

Book Chapter of the Year

Mark Ward, Sr., University of Houston-Victoria. Toward a theory of divine communication? Prospects and problems. In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), God talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication (pp. 139-157). Peter Lang, 2023

Dissertation of the Year

Arthur J. Bamford, University of Colorado. “New and Improved: Protestant Revivalism and the Origins of Modern American Advertising.” PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2024.

Student Paper of the Year

Breanna Prater, University of Missouri-Columbia. “Obviously I Wouldn’t Be a Pastor:” Baptist Women Leaders Nested Identity Construction, Performance, and Reconciliation. 

Presidential Citation Award

Frank A. Thomas, Christian Theology Seminary