Howard Thurman, Body Memories, and the Power of the Vignette.
Howard Thurman is attuned to bodies under threat. In this article, I argue that his use of vignettes offers a distinctive rhetorical strategy for addressing collective trauma. Through closely examining "The Third Component," a sermon preached in 1958, I display his distinctive contribution to workin...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 5 - 22 |
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Religious Communication Association
Summer2023
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