Tag: Religious communication

Persuasion strategies in vintage Rally Day postcards: Postal religious communication

Postcards can yield insight into persuasion strategy, religious events, and social situations. Rally Day postcards reveal how churches at the start of the 20th century characterized a pivotal…

The Devil and Vaccination and inoculation theory: Health communication, parody, and anti-vaccination rhetorical strategy

Here, an argument was advanced that taking a long historical view—in this case, considering satirical health messaging of the late 19th century—offered potential insight into modern health messaging,…

“Inoculate yourself with the word of God” Persuasion inoculation, medical inoculation, and religious rhetoric

The conflation of inoculation terminology with a non-inoculation process likely only adds to these confusing, potentially dangerous, public statements on health from a religious leader. Josh Compton https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348423.2019.1696122…

“Inoculate yourself with the word of God”: Persuasion, inoculation, medical inoculation and religious rhetoric

There is growing interest in inoculation theory as a rhetorical model of analysis. Josh Compton Copeland’s rhetoric provides a unique, informative case to consider issues of persuasion inoculation….

Inoculating for small pox inoculation objections in Reverend Cooper’s Letter to a Friend in the Country

Cooper’s unique rhetorical strategy remains useful for considering contemporary debates over medical inoculation. Josh Compton & Brian Kaylor http://www.relcomm.org/journal-of-communication-and-religion.html The early 18th century rhetoric of Boston minister William…

Chapter: Papal punchlines

Regardless of the sensitive nature of issues, late night comics will likely be succesful in making light of current events. Brian Kaylor & Josh Compton https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739121344/The-Rhetoric-of-Pope-John-Paul-II The death…