JRAI Special Issue Launch Event
Monday, 13 January 2025 4:00-5:30pm GMT
This is an online event. Register here:
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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’.
