CCCCs Sponsored Panels 

We invite individual and/or panel proposals for the RRT Standing Group's  Sponsored Session at the 2025 CCCCs Convention in Baltimore, MD. Read the Call for Papers
Deadline:  Friday, May 17, 2025 

This sponsored panel of the CCCC Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group brings together contributors from the collection Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age to discuss their work and explore intersections of rhetoric and religion in the field of writing studies. 

Speakers:  Jim Beitler, Wheaton College, Introduction and Tribute to John Brereton
Paul Lynch, Saint Louis University (on the need to foster religious pluralism)
Lisa King, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (on Native  American spiritual practices)
TJ Geiger, Texas Tech University (on intersections of Christian and Queer spiritualities) 

This panel illuminates multiple ways in which Islami rhetorics signify at the intersection of religion and culture, especially when viewed through a decolonial or postcolonial lens. Each paper reads Islamic texts or csocial practices as they operate on a border with the non-Muslim world, centering Islam normativesly rather than representing it as the 'other' in need of explanation. 

Speakers: Sabita Batakoti, University of Utah, "Rhetoric as Event: The Life of Umar ibn           Sayyid in the Foundation of Islam in America"
Amber Engelson, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts,  "'Mubadalah is In-Between':                 Performing Translingaul Praxis to Enact Islamic Gender Justice and Decolonial               Meaning-Making"
Shakil Rabbi, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, "The Rhetorics of Languages in           Puthi Genres: Literacy Practices of Bengali Muslim Communities in Religious    Narratives"