The Rhetoric of SincerityIn times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the artsliterature, but especially the visual and performing artsand religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular