Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public...

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Emily Murphy Cope

Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary

The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University

Emily Murphy Cope

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Routledge
13 February 2024

Christianity; Universities

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary addresses the question of how Christian undergraduates engage in academic writing and how best to teach them to participate in academic inquiry and prepare them for civic engagement.

Exploring how the secular both constrains and supports undergraduates’ academic writing, the book pays special attention to how it shapes younger evangelicals’ social identities, perceptions of academic genres, and rhetorical practices. The author draws on qualitative interviews with evangelical undergraduates at a public university and qualitative document analysis of their writing for college, grounded in scholarship from social theory, writing studies, sociology of religion, rhetorical theory, and social psychology, to describe the multiple ways these evangelicals participate in the secular imaginary that is the public university through their academic writing. The conception of a “secular imaginary” provides an explanatory framework for examining the lived experiences and academic writing of religious students in American institutions of higher education. By examining the power of the secular imaginary on academic writers, this book offers rhetorical educators a more complex vocabulary that makes visible the complex social forces shaping our students’ experiences with writing.

This book will be of interest not just to scholars and educators in the area of rhetoric, writing studies and communication but also those working on religious studies, Christian discourse and sociology of religion.

By: Emily Murphy Cope
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781032494616
ISBN 10: 1032494611
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Murphy Cope is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at York College of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several articles and book chapters and currently a co-editor of Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Writing.