The Rhetoric of Religious Cults - E-book

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The Rhetoric Of Religious Cults - ENG

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A. Mooney

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ISBN:	9780230504417
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Lenguas
Subtema:	Lingüística general
Año de publicación:	2005-08-02

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, Jehovahs 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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