Acknowledgements
Introduction: Taking Rhetoric to Its Limits; or, How to Respond to a Sacred Call
Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen
Part 1: Sacred Encounters
Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords
Cynthia Haynes
Engaging a Rhetorical God: Developing the Capacities of Mercy and Justice
David Frank
Political Theologies of Sacred Rhetoric
Steven Mailloux
How to Undo Truths with Words: Reading Texts Both Sacred and Profane in Hobbes and Benjamin
James R. Martel
Chanting the Supreme Word of Information: “Sacred?! Redundant?!”
Richard Doyle and Trey Conner
Part 2: Sacred Practices
Hacking the Sacred (or Not): Rhetorical Attunements for Ecodelic Imbrication
Jodie Nicotra
Divining Rhetoric’s Future
Michelle Ballif
Where Is the Nuclear Sovereign?
Ned O’Gorman with Kevin Hamilton
From the Cathedral to the Casino: The Wager as a Response to the Sacred
Brooke Rollins
Rightness in Retrospect: Stonewall and the Sacred Call of Kairos
Jean Bessette
Historiography and the Limits of (Sacred) Rhetoric
Daniel M. Gross
List of Contributors
Index
