Session 4: 3:00pm-4:15pm

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

3:00pm-4:15pm 

Session 4A
Room: TBA

President’s Roundtable | Religion and Politics: A Reflection on the Election

Chair: Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis

Presenters

Jeffrey Miller, University of Memphis
Cassandra Gould, Eden Theological Seminary
Joshua Miller, Independent Scholar
Amariah McIntosh, Phillips Chapel CME Church
Andrea Terry, Sacramento State University
Thomas Fuerst, Memphis Theological Seminary
Wallis C. Baxter, III, Independent Scholar

Session 4B
Room: TBA

Nonverbal Communication, Culture, and Worship

Chair: Breanna Prater, University of Missouri-Columbia

“Ring by Spring”: Nonverbal Immediacy Cues and Motivations of Christian Romantic Relationships, Amanda Fischer, Biola University

God, Is That You?: Imagined Interactions and Christian and Jewish Prayer, R. Ryan Beaty, University of Oklahoma

Should I Raise My Hands? Students Navigating the Worship Culture of a Christian University, Ehud Lee, Biola University

Making Sense of Christian Discipleship: Unpacking Communication About What it Means to Follow Jesus, Kaela Berretta, Biola University

Session 4C
Room: TBA

RCA 2024 Scholarship Awards Panel II

Chair: Theon Hill, Wheaton College

JCR Article of the Year: Leland G. Spencer, University of South Carolina and Timothy S. Forest.

“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.

Edited Volume of the Year: Mark Ward, Sr., University of Houston-Victoria

God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication.

Book of the Year: Paul Lynch, St. Louis University

Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard