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The Rhetoric of Religious Cults

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ISBN: 1403942854
ISBN 13: 9781403942852
Autor: Mooney, A
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 208 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.08.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Topicality – significant growth of such ‚cults‘, especially in the US Draws parallels with other kinds of recruitment approaches, for example, by corporations and by the organizations that campaign against cultsOriginal applications of rhetorical canons to the material put out by ‚cults‘, and detailed analysis of textsOriginal and surprising ‚take‘ on the recruitment language of ‚cults‘ such as Scientology, Jehovah’s Witnesses and The Children of God, based on detailed discourse analysis of their materials

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

ANNABELLE MOONEY is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK.

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