Spiritual Communication Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Adam Smidi and Lara Lengel, "The Relevance of Interfaith Community-Building and Khutab to Counter Islamophobia" |
| 2016 | Becky L. DeGreeff, "Can I Actually be an Enlightened Catholic Spiritualist? Tensions Surrounding My Religious and Spiritual Identity Evolution" |
| 2015 | Lara Lengel, Heather Holdsworth, and Sandra Tebbe, “Embracing opportunities for partnetship building between faith-based nonprofit community organization professionals and communication scholars: Enacting social change along the Secular-Religious Identity Spectrum” |
| 2014 | David Walton, “(Re)Embracing the spirit: Exploring the multivocalic relationship between Christian education and spiritual formation” |
| 2014 | Liz Barr, “Spiritual Narratives and the Icarus Project: Disidentification and Rhetoric of Liberation” |
| 2014 | John Hochheimer and Benjamin Lyons, “Spirituality Studies: A Status Report from the Field” |
| 2014 | Mary Grace Antony, “’It’s Not Religious, but it’s Spiritual’: Appropriation and the Universal Spirituality of Yoga” |
| 2013 | Ryan Chesnut, “Christian Fathers’ Perceptions of Their Role in Childcare Decisions” |
| 2013 | Abhik Roy, “Connecting Christian Manliness with Hindu Spiritualism: Swami Vivekananda’s Rhetoric of Hindnu Nationalism” |
| 2013 | Emily M. Cramer, Kelly E. Tenzek, Mike Allen, “Recognizing Success in the Chaplain Profession: Connecting Perceptions to Practice” |
| 2013 | Sara Mourad, “The Execution of Saddam Hussein" |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Gregory Davis, Matthew Albright, and Jacob Detelich, "Sowing the Seeds' of Parasocial Persuasion: A content Analysis of Televangelism and the Prosperity Gospel" |
| 2016 | Lindy Grief Davidson, "Do You Believe in Miracles? Spiritual Conversations in Pediatric Palliative Care" |
| 2015 | Nicole Sikora Heschong, “Bearing witness: Pet obituaries as spiritual communication” |