James A. Herrick
James A. Herrick (PhD University of Wisconsin–Madison, MA University of California–Davis) was for twenty years the Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, MI, where he taught from 1984 to 2020. Mr. Herrick is the author of several books, including The Making of the New
Spirituality (IVP 2003), Scientific Mythologies (IVP 2009), The History and Theory of Rhetoric (Routledge 2020), Visions of Technological Transcendence (Parlor 2017), and Argumentation (Strata 2021). Herrick writes and speaks about religious themes in popular culture, new religious movements, popular narratives about technology, and public discourse.