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Spiritual modalities

FitzGerald, William, 1961-

Spiritual modalities prayer as rhetoric and performance / [electronic resource] : William FitzGerald. - University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (176 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prayer: the rediscovered country -- Prayer and its situations: meditation on Kairos and Krisis -- "Hear us, o Lord": audience and address in communicating with the divine -- Invocations of spirit: prayer as speech act -- Dance of attitude: prayer as the performance of reverence -- Performing the Memorare: prayer as a rhetorical art of memory -- Bodies and spirits in virtual motion: prayer and delivery in cyberspace.

"Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine"--Provided by publisher.

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