The Rhetoric of Religious Cults
| Autor: | Mooney, A. |
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| EAN: | 9781403942852 |
| Auflage: | 2005 |
| Sachgruppe: | Religion/Theologie |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 208 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 02.08.2005 |
| Untertitel: | Terms of Use and Abuse |
| Schlagworte: | Religion - Church History |
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The Rhetoric of Religious Cults takes as its departure point the notion that 'cults' have a distinctive language and way of recruiting members. First outlining a rhetorical framework, which encompasses contemporary discourse analysis, the persuasive texts of three movements - Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses and Children of God - are analysed in detail and their discourse compared with other kinds of recruitment literature. Cults' distinctive negative profile in society is not matched by a linguistic typology. Indeed, this negative profile seems to rest on the semantics and application of the term 'cult' itself.
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