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.