RHETORICS OF HEALING: LITERATURES AND CULTURAL NARRATIVES

A Conference sponsored by The Centre for Rhetorics and Hermeneutics
at the University of Redlands
Redlands, California
Friday, January 25, 2002

The papers listed below represent some of those presented at the Conference.

They are available to our readers with the understanding that the copyrights for each are retained by the authors.
They can be cited only with the permission of the author.

L. Gregory Bloomquist, "First Century Models of Bodily Healing and Their Socio-rhetorical Transformation in Some NT Synoptic Gospel Traditons"

Jan C. Heller, “To Heal as Jesus Healed: Implications of John Dominic Crossan's Research for the Self-Understanding of Catholic Health Care Sponsors”

Lenore Langsdorf, “Healing Nothingness: Rhetorical Analysis of Christian Scientist's Understanding Illness as Belief”

Ed Madden, "Immersion Pedogogies, or "Can You Feel It, Joe?"

Etta Madden, “Testimony as Therapy: The Failings of Contemporary Deconversion Narratives"

Sharon G. Siano, “The Final Journey: Dialogs, Dances, and Dilemmas”

Jan Swearingen, “Physician, “Heal Thyself: Diotima Teaches Socrates a Lesson in Love”

Wilhelm Wuellner, “Obstacles and Promises for Reconsidering a Rhetorics of Healing”

Please refer all inquires concerning the use of these papers to the editor, James D. Hester.