The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Terms of Use and Abuse

by Annabelle Mooney

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403942854
• ISBN13: 9781403942852
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"