CONFERENCE PAPERS

Listed below are links to the papers to be discussed at the conference on "The Rhetorics of Social Formation"
held at the University of Redlands in Redlands, CA, on January 19-20, 2007.
All rights to the papers are held by the authors.
Any use of theirs contents, etc., is contingent on their permission.

Auditors are welcome at the conference, which will meet in the Bulldog and Och Tamale Rooms
of the Hunsaker Student Center, from 0900 till 1700 hours on the days of the conference.
Participation is normally limited to contributors, however.


L. Gregory Bloomquist (St. Paul University):
“Implications of rhetorical counterfactuals for understanding social formation in liminal communities: Paul's letter to the Philippians” of Thyatira in Acts 16:14-15, 40”

Roy R. Jeal (Booth College):
“Blending Two Arts: Rhetorical Words, Rhetorical Pictures, and Social Formation in the Letter to Philemon”

Dennis R. MacDonald (Claremont School of Theology):
“Rhetoric and the Deconstruction of Social Identity: The Case of Mark 13-16”

Joe Marchal (Austin College):
“Suffering and Status in Being and Becoming: Paul, Corinthian Women Prophets, and Transsexuals”,

Barry Mauer (University of Central Florida):
“Proposal for a Monument to Lost Data”

Jennifer R. Ottman (Shippensburg University):
“Language, History, and Identity in a Colonial Textual Community”

Todd Penner (Austin College) and Caroline Vander Stichele (University of Amsterdam):
“Canonized Bodies: Gender and the Formation of Early Christianity”

Daniel E. Rossi-Keen (Ohio University):
"The Rhetoric of Reification and the Ethos of Rhetoric: James Dobson's War on Homosexuality"

H. Peter Steeves (De Paul University):
“Mars Attacked: Interplanetary Environmental Ethics and the Science of Life”

Gerrie F. Snyman (University of South Africa):
“'Is It not Sufficient to be a Human Being?': Memory, Christianity, and White Identity in Africa”

Brian Tucker (Michigan Theological Seminary):
“Negotiated Identity and Paul's Rhetoric: The Use of Self-Categorization and Social Identity Theory in the Corinthian Correspondence to Support the Pauline Mission”

David Waterman (Université de La Rochelle):
“Group Allegiance and Coerced Identity: Doris Lessing's The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire”