Isaac James Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac James Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac James |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS I J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0828-9307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aura, Objects, and Originality
Rhetoricians of public memory are interested in materiality. Simultaneously, they seek to recover, promote, and commemorate historically marginalized populations. These twin objectives create a paradoxical challenge: How does one study public memory in contexts where material manifestations are limited or lost to history? What of peoples and cultures whose histories of erasure have left them with insufficient material to stock a traditional museu…
Approaching the Tree
Approaching the Tree: Interpreting 1 Nephi 8 is primarily theological. For that reason, it may not be on the radar of the Journal of Mormon History's readership. The goal of this review is to point out a few important ways in which Approaching the Tree is historical, and how it might benefit historians of various bents. The book as a whole is a collection of nine essays and nine original artworks all focusing on 1 Nephi 8, the chapter in the Book…
We Fly Forgotten as a Dream”
Via an analysis of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead , Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place for Us , and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men , I argue that the spiritual nature of memory is a defining feature of contemporary postsecular American literature. I also point out a few key differences between European and American memory, largely by reference to work by Willa Cather and Italo Calvino, to help strengthen my case that American memory spec…
Rumination
Rumination
A Modest Paraphrase of Alma 30
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India is an evidence-based exploration of philosopher John Dewey's influence on the Republic of India's constitutional mastermind Bhimrao Ambedkar—but such a description understates Scott Stroud's achievement. Drawing on material and archival research, Stroud chronicles Ambedkar's reception, creative appropriation, and reconstruction of pragmatism in the unique context of India's emerging democracy and battle agains…
“Anarchy in the USA”
The almost universal response to the US Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, has been righteous indignation. Democrats and Republicans alike have called it a defilement or a desecration of the nation’s sacred house. This article adds to the literature on Capitol riot rhetoric by proposing a theory of desecration as a rhetoric in motu because desecration enacts movement across a sacred boundary. We outline key features of a rhetoric of desecration and…
The labyrinth
If all the world is a stage, then the most recent stage direction might be: ‘enter Artificial Intelligence’. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made headlines ever since its release in late November 2022. ‘It’s like talking to God’, said a friend of mine, who first introduced me to the interface. The seeming omniscience of the thing is startling and overwhelming. Those who have played with it have found it addicting, astonishing and frustrating all at once. Wh…
The American Religion and the Rhetoric of Theophany
James Darsey has argued that a primitive source of reform rhetoric in America is the Old Testament. We argue that the discourse of American reform has another rhetorical ancestor that originates from the prophetic tradition of the American Religion, a scholarly term for the democratic religiosity of nineteenth-century America. By performing a comparative analysis of three theophanies, recorded in the personal narrative accounts of Emanuel Swedenb…
The Rhetoric of Unreasonable Optimism
The labyrinth
If all the world is a stage, then the most recent stage direction might be: ‘enter Artificial Intelligence’. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made headlines ever since its release in late November 2022. ‘It’s like talking to God’, said a friend of mine, who first introduced me to the interface. The seeming omniscience of the thing is startling and overwhelming. Those who have played with it have found it addicting, astonishing and frustrating all at once. Wh…
The American Religion and the Rhetoric of Theophany
James Darsey has argued that a primitive source of reform rhetoric in America is the Old Testament. We argue that the discourse of American reform has another rhetorical ancestor that originates from the prophetic tradition of the American Religion, a scholarly term for the democratic religiosity of nineteenth-century America. By performing a comparative analysis of three theophanies, recorded in the personal narrative accounts of Emanuel Swedenb…
The Rhetoric of Unreasonable Optimism
“Anarchy in the USA”
The almost universal response to the US Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, has been righteous indignation. Democrats and Republicans alike have called it a defilement or a desecration of the nation’s sacred house. This article adds to the literature on Capitol riot rhetoric by proposing a theory of desecration as a rhetoric in motu because desecration enacts movement across a sacred boundary. We outline key features of a rhetoric of desecration and…
The labyrinth
If all the world is a stage, then the most recent stage direction might be: ‘enter Artificial Intelligence’. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made headlines ever since its release in late November 2022. ‘It’s like talking to God’, said a friend of mine, who first introduced me to the interface. The seeming omniscience of the thing is startling and overwhelming. Those who have played with it have found it addicting, astonishing and frustrating all at once. Wh…
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India is an evidence-based exploration of philosopher John Dewey's influence on the Republic of India's constitutional mastermind Bhimrao Ambedkar—but such a description understates Scott Stroud's achievement. Drawing on material and archival research, Stroud chronicles Ambedkar's reception, creative appropriation, and reconstruction of pragmatism in the unique context of India's emerging democracy and battle agains…
Approaching the Tree
Approaching the Tree: Interpreting 1 Nephi 8 is primarily theological. For that reason, it may not be on the radar of the Journal of Mormon History's readership. The goal of this review is to point out a few important ways in which Approaching the Tree is historical, and how it might benefit historians of various bents. The book as a whole is a collection of nine essays and nine original artworks all focusing on 1 Nephi 8, the chapter in the Book…
We Fly Forgotten as a Dream”
Via an analysis of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead , Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place for Us , and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men , I argue that the spiritual nature of memory is a defining feature of contemporary postsecular American literature. I also point out a few key differences between European and American memory, largely by reference to work by Willa Cather and Italo Calvino, to help strengthen my case that American memory spec…
Rumination
Rumination
A Modest Paraphrase of Alma 30
Aura, Objects, and Originality
Rhetoricians of public memory are interested in materiality. Simultaneously, they seek to recover, promote, and commemorate historically marginalized populations. These twin objectives create a paradoxical challenge: How does one study public memory in contexts where material manifestations are limited or lost to history? What of peoples and cultures whose histories of erasure have left them with insufficient material to stock a traditional museu…
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