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Subject(s)

• Fundamentalism—United States [Browse]
• Fundamentalist churches—United States [Browse]
• Rhetoric—United States—Religious aspects [Browse]

Series

Rhetoric and public affairs series [More in this series]

Summary note

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 to themselves, and to do that, we must begin by exploring the central role of "the church" in Fundamentalist rhetoric and politics. Edwards blends a complex yet readable treatment of rhetorical and political theory with a sophisticated approach to Fundamentalism that neither dismisses its appeal nor glosses over its irresolvable tensions.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.

Contents

• The public and its fundamentalists
• The fundamentals of revival
• Countersymbols and confederacy
• The superchurch revealed
• The superchurch reimagined
• The limits of accommodation.

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ISBN

• 9781611861594 ((cloth))
• 1611861594 ((cloth))
• 1628951702
• 9781628951707

LCCN

2014949057

OCLC

895302178

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