Is There Theological Pragmatics:How to Do Ideologies with Words

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of what is involved in religious settings and mosque orations. The paper presents religious rhetoric and other strategies stylized to establish a new set of ideologies on the basis of already-established ones. Ideologies are taken to be a cognitive, social and cultural system of beliefs, judgments, norms, group interests, attitudes, behavior, .. etc. Ideology-control involves using certain established frames of reference; The Glorious Qura’an verses, Prophet Mohammed’s Alhadith, his followers’ speech, stories, poems, events, and evidence. Linguistic strategies include speech acts, politeness conventions, Me first principle, metaphors, honorific expressions, stylistic devices, repetition, discourse genre and other devices used to achieve the reality-establishing-process of self-awareness. However, concentration is going to be restricted to some of these strategies due to limitation of space. Thus, the paper is an attempt in theological oratory discourse pragmatics.