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The Rhetoric of Religious Cults

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Edition number: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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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.
Table of Contents:
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