Choinski / Choinski The Rhetoric of the Revival: The Language of the Great Awakening Preachers

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-647-56023-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies

Micha? Choi?ski explores the language of the key preachers of the 'Great Awakening' of the mid-eighteenth century, and seeks to explain the impact their sermons exerted upon colonial American audiences. The revival of the 1739-43 is recognized as an important event in American colonial history, formative for the shaping of the culture of New England and beyond. Choi?ski highlights a variety of inventive rhetorical mechanisms employed by these ministers evolved into what came to be called the rhetoric of the revival,' became commonplace for American revivalism, and were fundamental for the persuasive power of Great Awakening preaching and the communicative success of the 'New Light' ministers. '

Micha? Choi?ski is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choinski, Michal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Predigten

Über Autor(innen)

Choinski, Michal
Michal Choinski is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Choinski, Michal
Michal Choinski is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.