TY - BOOK AU - FitzGerald,William TI - Spiritual modalities: prayer as rhetoric and performance SN - 9780271060507 (electronic bk.) AV - BL560 .F58 2012eb U1 - 204/.3 23 PY - 2012/// CY - University Park, Penn. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Prayer KW - Rhetoric KW - Performance KW - RELIGION / Prayer KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Sermons / General KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine"--Provided by publisher UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=507216 ER -