Superchurch : the Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism

Superchurch : the Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism / Jonathan J. Edwards.

To many outsiders, Fundamentalist speech seems contradictory, irrational, intolerant, and dangerously antidemocratic. To understand the complexity of Fundamentalism, we have to look inside the tensions and the paradoxes. We have to take seriously the ways in which Fundamentalists describe themselves...

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Main Author: Edwards, Jonathan J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Series:Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Subjects:
Fundamentalism > United States.
Fundamentalist churches > United States.
RELIGION > Fundamentalism.
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalist churches
Fundamentalism > politiska aspekter.
Kristendom.
Retorik.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Public and Its Fundamentalists
  • Chapter Two. The Fundamentals of Revival
  • Chapter Three. Countersymbols and Confederacy
  • Chapter Four. The Superchurch Revealed
  • Chapter Five. The Superchurch Reimagined
  • Chapter Six. The Limits of Accommodation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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