Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781403942852 |
ISBN10: | 1403942854 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 208 pages |
Size: | 216x140 mm |
Weight: | 430 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | IX, 208 p. |
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Eastern philosophies
Magic, occultism, dream analysis, divination
Linguistics in general, dictionaries
Semantics, lexicography
Sociolinguistics
Further readings in religion
Eastern philosophies (charity campaign)
Magic, occultism, dream analysis, divination (charity campaign)
Linguistics in general, dictionaries (charity campaign)
Semantics, lexicography (charity campaign)
Sociolinguistics (charity campaign)
Further readings in religion (charity campaign)
The Rhetoric of Religious Cults
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Edition number: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication: 2 August 2005
Number of Volumes: 1 pieces, Book
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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