Though much has already been written on religious freedom in the United States, these treatments have come mostly from historians, legal scholars, and advocates, with relatively little attention from rhetorical critics. In The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider the arguments, evidences, and strategies defining what religious freedom means and who is entitled to claim it in the contemporary United States.

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Eric C. MillerChapter 1Reinhold Niebuhr's Rhetorical Legacy: Democratic Community and Religious FreedomCody HawleyChapter 2Persuasive Ambassadors: The Southern Baptist Commitment to Religious Freedom for AllMichael Strawser, Matthew Hawkins, and Joe C. MartinChapter 3Differing Definitions: How Conservative Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants Frame FreedomStephanie A. MartinChapter 4 Negotiating Religious Freedom in US Catholic Responses to Vaccine ScienceMiles C. ColemanChapter 5Freedom for Whom? The Contested Terrain of Religious Freedom for Muslims in the United StatesAdam Smidi and Lara LengelChapter 6"Not About Discrimination:" Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and the Question of IntentEric C. MillerChapter 7Religious Freedom and the MarketplaceJames T. PetreChapter 8Kim Davis vs. the Gay(ze): A Problematic Response to Religious Freedom AdvocatesSarah WalkerChapter 9Evangelized Scandals: Religious Freedom and Cultural Politics at Wheaton CollegeRobin ReamesChapter 10Environmental Protection and Religious Freedom: The Case of the Dakota Access Pipeline Elizabeth A. PetreChapter 11"What Do You Have to Lose?" Donald Trump, Religious Freedom, and the African American VoteAndre E. JohnsonChapter 12Is Trump Also Among the Fundamentalists? Religious Freedom and the Fight to Repeal the Johnson AmendmentJonathan J. EdwardsAbout the Contributors