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ERIC Number: EJ1439841
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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ISSN: ISSN-1522-7502
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Writing as a Spiritual Exercise
Paul Lynch
Composition Forum, v54 2024
The United States is undergoing unprecedented religious change, including an increasing diversity of religious tradition, rapid disaffiliation from conventional religious institutions, and a rise in syncretic and sometimes corporatized spiritualties. Given the speed and scope of these changes, all of which affect our students, rhetoric and writing studies (RWS) must undertake the study of spirituality. Insofar as RWS seeks to prepare students for democratic citizenship, it should engage in public discussion and study of the practices that appear to be replacing traditional religious observance. RWS has a special claim on spirituality studies, which have often undertaken scholarly work on writing, reading, and speaking practices. In fact, RWS has already begun to pursue this kind of scholarship, even if it does not always go by the name "spirituality." This essay will therefore discern the ways in which RWS is engaged in this work, and it will offer reasons why we must engage it further.
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition. e-mail: cf@compositionforum.com; Web site: http://compositionforum.com
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Language: English
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