The Rhetoric of Religious Cults
| Autor: | A. Mooney |
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| EAN: | 9780230504417 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 02.08.2005 |
| Untertitel: | Terms of Use and Abuse |
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| Schlagworte: | English literature bibliography church discourse discourse analysis god knowledge language literature rhetoric semantic semantics society typology |
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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.
ANNABELLE MOONEY is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK.
ANNABELLE MOONEY is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK.
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