Download or read book Rhetoric, Religion, and the Roots of Identity in British Colonial America written by James Robertson Andrews and published by Rhetorical History of the Unit. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of the Rhetorical History of the United States series probes formal and ideational aspects of colonial rhetoric to illuminate textual/contextual interactions and their enduring implications for American rhetoric. Topics such as millennialism, religious freedom and toleration, covenant theology, revivalism, and the British heritage of American colonial rhetoric are explored. By examining sermons, forensic speaking, theological treatise, literary traditions, prayers, poems, and other rhetorical artifacts, these essays help to illuminate the sources of American identity as that identity was formed through the theory and practice of rhetoric.