The Rhetoric of Religious Cults : Terms of Use and Abuse
by
A. Mooney
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1403942854
ISBN-13
9781403942852
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 2nd, 2005
Print length
208 Pages
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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.
This study''s departure point is 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 analyzed 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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