Patriotism and a Free Press: A Content Analysis of Civil Religion in Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing and The Newsroom
American civil religion abounds in Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, but an idealized patriotism is also pronounced in The Newsroom and Sorkin's other works. A quantitative content analysis found that civil religion elements pop up roughly every three-and-a-half minutes in The West Wing and ev...
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Journal of media and religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 41-60 |
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USA
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