Spiritism as a target of 'annihilation': conceptual clarification and exemplification of a rhetorical strategy

The rhetorical strategy of annihilation appears in situations of conflict between different world-views. It is the attempt of one of the parties involved to attribute an inferior status to the adversary. The technique requires the capacity of a social actor of influencing the public image of the phe...

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Main Author: Usarski, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Social compass
Year: 2019, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-223
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Brazil / Rhetoric / Spiritism / Candomblé / Abolition of / History 1890-1940
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AZ New religious movements
KBR Latin America
Further subjects:B Spiritisme
B Annihilation
B Brazil
B Kardecism
B Spiritism
B kardecisme
B Brésil
B Stigmatization
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