This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the symbolic processing of continuity and change using the case of Carl F. H. Henry, (2) rhetorical strategies and image projection in John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, (3) the political preaching of Jerry Falwell on behalf of the Moral Majority, (4) the political myths of J. Edgar Hoover, (5) Charles Grandison Finney's lectures on revivals of religion, (6) persuasive strategies in the discourse of Sudanese President Gaafar M. Nimeiri, (7) the rhetoric of Irvin S. Cobb, (8) social order and rhetoric in the sixteenth century Rome of Pope Julius II, (9) persuasion and coercion used by the Carter Administration to promote human rights in South America, (10) the rhetoric of C. L. R. James, (11) paradox in the political discourse of Barry Goldwater and the resurgence of conservatism in American politics, (12) the character of eloquence in humanism, (13) the reformed liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, (14) the rhetoric of Menachem Begin, (15) the Christian rhetoric of Gerard Manley Hopkins, (16) the rhetoric of the Sand Creek Indian uprising, and (17) Franklin D. Roosevelt as summit negotiator at Teheran and Yalta. (HTH)