Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination (Suny (Suny Series in Rhetoric and Theology)

This book explores the possibility of a liberatory postmodern rhetoric or, alternatively, a postmodern liberation rhetoric. The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain?
After a foray into key terms rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador."