This is a brief audio recording of a panel presentation I made at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago on November 13, 2009. My comments address the state of “religious” (or “religion”) scholarship on communication and, conversely, the state of communication scholarship about religion.
I also offer a “wish list” for future research about the intersection of religion and communication, including: (1) a post-post-modern paradigm (or paradigms) of communication, (2) the nature of human communication as an act of faith, (3) modes of human discourse that would better equip different religious groups to communicate civilly without either giving up their irreconcilable differences or communicating exclusively on the basis of such differences, and (4) the parabolic aspects of human storytelling as other-worldly.
Listen to Quentin Schultze on “Religious Communication Scholarship”:
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