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The Rhetoric of Religious Cults

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  • Hardback
  • 220 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave USA
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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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.
  • Author

    A. Mooney

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave USA

  • Published

    August 2005

  • Edition

    2005 ed.

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    220

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781403942852

  • ISBN-10

    1403942854

  • Eden Code

    1175621

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