The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse by Mooney, A.

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349521685)

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The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse by Mooney, A.

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse

$109.99
The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse by Mooney, A.

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse

$109.99
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 134952168X
ISBN-13: 9781349521685
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By A. Mooney
By A. Mooney
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ANNABELLE MOONEY is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK.

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