Language Appropriation and Identity Construction in New Religious Movements: Peoples Temple as Test Case
This article uses sociolinguistic research on cultural markers, combined with Tim Murphy’s semiotic theory of religion, to argue that linguistic fluency signals and shapes group identity in new religious movements. Asserting that religions are systems of signification with shifting meanings, I argue...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 85, Issue: 2, Pages: 348-380 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Peoples Temple
/ Language usage
/ New religion
/ Religious identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
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