JRAI Special Issue Launch Event

JRAI 2024 Special Issue: Religious Suasion

Co-editors and authors:

Sam Victor, McGill University

Danny Cardoza, Brigham Young University

Contributing authors:

Julia Cassaniti, University of Virginia

Michal Kravel-Tovi, Tel-Aviv University

Courtney Handman, University of Texas at Austin

Jacob R. Hickman, Brigham Young University

Yu Qiu, Zhejiang University

Invited discussants:

Joel Robbins, University of Cambridge

Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan

The issue proposes a comparative analytic, called ‘religious suasion’, for clarifying the stakes of diverse religious actors’ ideologies and practices of influence. The point is to look beyond rhetoric and discursive messaging to provide both broader and deeper analytical affordances in the study of interested communication. Across six ethnographic essays, the issue critically interrogates the Christian theological specificity of terms like ‘missionization’ and ‘evangelization’, as well as the limitations of relying on negatively valanced terms like ‘proselytization’.

You can read the Special issue here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655/2024/30/S1
It is currently open access.