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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The intersection of Christianity and the environment; Typology of separators, bargainers, and harmonizers; Dramatism, argumentation, and rhetorical listening; American Christianity and environmentalism; Chapter outline; Conclusion; Notes; References; 1 Defining the separators: War, melodrama, and authority; The Cornwall Alliance; Guiding terms; Controlling definitions; Shifting blame; Appealing to authority; Conclusion; Notes; References

Abstract
Addressing climate change requires engaging with the fluid, dynamic, and amorphous narrative of humanature relationships. I view environmental rhetoric as practices of storytelling that structure reality, guide actions, and shape understanding of the environment. Through rhetorical criticism, I analyzed fragments of climate activist discourse related to the narratives' temporal and spatial scopes. I argue that reimagining the scope of our climate narratives' temporal (chronos-kairos) and spatial (chora-topos) dimensions are inventional opportunities to motivate climate action toward more sustainable futures.

In 1925, the Scopes Trial, one of the first legal battles over teaching evolution in public schools, was held in Dayton, Tennessee. Dayton commemorates the trial with a trinity of sites: The Scopes Trial Museum, the Scopes Trial Trail, and Bryan College. I argue that the trail connects the two other public memory places physically and symbolically, inviting visitors to follow the journey of William Jennings Bryan's death at the Scopes Trial Museum to a rebirth of creationism at Bryan College. This inquiry attends to the influence of creationist messages at historical landmarks in shaping public understanding of the past. Furthermore, I explore how a museum experience can be felt across multiple memory places to elicit subject positions in visitors.

Combining a dramatistic analysis with the Toulmin model productively contributes to a rhetorical understanding of the 2016 presidential election and locates Burke as an integral component of political communication criticism. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's rhetoric differed not only on policy arguments, but also on their rhetorical vision for America. Trump's campaign arguments privileged the agent and thus invoked identification with an idealist worldview, while Clinton's rhetoric privileged agency and thus invoked identification with a pragmatic one. Warrants and worldviews are interconnected parts of campaign rhetoric that contribute to both persuasion and identification.