The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse - Hardcover
The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse - Hardcover
$185.18
/
products.product.pickup_availability.unavailable
Your payment information is processed securely. We do not store credit card details nor have access to your credit card information.
by A. Mooney (Author)
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 Biography
ANNABELLE MOONEY is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK.
