{"product_id":"rhetoric-religion-and-tragic-violence","title":"Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eSacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon—both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric\/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54803505086808,"sku":"9781433190230","price":89.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433190230_602d38e8-815b-4322-ac19-92b366c6b65e.jpg?v=1777944620","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rhetoric-religion-and-tragic-violence","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}