The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse
Author:   A. Mooney
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Edition:   2005 ed.
ISBN:  

9781403942852


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 August 2005
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   A. Mooney
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2005 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781403942852


ISBN 10:   1403942854
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 August 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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