Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination

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Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination is written by Bradford T. Stull and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1438421567 (ISBN 10) and 9781438421568 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the possibility of a "liberatory postmodern rhetoric" or, alternatively, a "postmodern liberation rhetoric." The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain? After a foray into key terms—rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion—the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador.