The Religious Communication Association 2013 Awards

 
 
 

The Religious Communication (RCA) is an academic society founded in 1973 by people interested in the study of all aspects of public religious communication. Among its members are teachers, students, clergy, broadcasters, and other scholars and professionals who share a common interest in religious speech, media, performance, and other communication. It is nonsectarian, striving to provide a setting in which persons of various faiths, or no faith, can study the problems of communication and religion. As an interfaith scholarly and professional organization, RCA seeks to promote honest, respectful and profound dialogue which reflects the diversity of religious beliefs, subject matter concerns, methodologies, and professions of its members. 

The Religious Communication Association is pleased to announce its 2013 scholarly awards:

Book of the Year
William D. Romanowski
Calvin College
Reforming Hollywood:  How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies
Oxford University Press (2012)
 
Dissertation of the Year
Christy E. Mesaros-Winckles
Bowling Green State University 
"Only God Knows the Opposition we Face:  The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century FreeMethodist Women's Quest for Ordination" 
Ph.D., 2012, Bowling Green State University 
Dissertation Committee Chair: Ellen Gorsevski,
 
Article of the Year 
Margaret M. Poloma and Matthew T. Lee
University of Akron
"Prophetic Prayer as Two-Way Communication with the Divine"
Published in Journal of Communication & Religion 35:271-294.
 
Student Paper of the Year
Jamie Downing
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
"An Ancient Modern Rhetoric:  Calling upon Traditional Rhetorical Practice in the
Fight for Jewish Emancipation"

Scholar of the Year  
Robert H. Woods Jr.
Spring Arbor University