Born and Raised in the Briar Patch: Examining Southern Expectations Through Br'er Rabbit and the Boo Hagby Emily Seaver (Undergraduate) In an age of immigration towards the American South, Southerners hold onto their folklore as an establishment of their values. We analyze folklore through a sociocultural lens to parallel how the values portrayed in the stories are echoed through Southern culture today. |
Communication, Power, and the Prophetic: Dissensus and Critique from the Christian Perspectiveby Dr. Andrew Harris (Faculty) In arguing for the place of Christian perspectives in the field, Marsden writes, “the alternative being proposed is that there be room for explicit Christian points of view (just as there are explicit Marxist or feminist views) for those who will play by the other rules proper to the diverse academy” (p. 52). Shortly thereafter, he makes analogy between religious perspectives and the critical school as a means of discussing the unnecessary nature of tendentious in scholarship (p. 54). When I first read Marsden's book over a decade ago, it struck me that while he was not making an explicit case for a deeper comparison, he was on to something when he brought together the critical school and Christian perspectives. At a recent conference, Terry Lindvall, C.S. Lewis Endowed Chair in Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan University, spoke of the experimental conversations concerning the Old Testament prophets and communication that happened among his colleagues at Regent University. At that point, it struck me that the critical tradition, which has for decades been dominated by atheistic perspectives, was a natural fit for Christian scholarship if the foundations could be re-thought in terms of the prophetic. Therefore, I argue for such a re-thinking and provide some tentative axioms for the understanding of power dynamics in communication. The presentation will follow a structure similar to this: |