"We Need Something Different": Understanding Westboro Baptist Church’s Ministry of Rebuke through Empathic Research Methods
This article examines responses to the controversial picketing and media-savvy provocations of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). Since WBC’s conduct is widely perceived as cruel, people often respond with anger and animosity, which reinforce WBC’s self-representation as a persecuted church. Convers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Journal of religious ethics
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Westboro Baptist Church
/ Provocation
/ Interview
/ Listening
/ Empathy
/ Moral judgment
/ Rejection of
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CA Christianity KBQ North America KDG Free church NCC Social ethics |
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Westboro Baptist Church
B Listening B comparative religious ethics B Empathy |
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