The Rhetoric of Religious Cults
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Product details:
- Edition number 2005
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Date of Publication 2 August 2005
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781403942852
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English
- Illustrations IX, 208 p. 0
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Long description:
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.
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Acknowledgements Introduction The 'Cults' and the Canons The Church of Scientology 'The Story of Dianetics and Scientology' The Jehovah's Witnesses The Family Is Cult Language Distinctive? Cults: What They Are Cults, Cults Everywhere? Conclusion: McKinsey as Cult? Bibliography Index
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