The New Fundamentalism: A Sociorhetorical Approach to Understanding Theological Change
Fundamentalism as a religious movement has had an ambivalent relationship with American culture. This study seeks to explain recent changes in that relationship. A rhetorical-critical analysis of 100 articles from the Fundamentalist Journal between 1982-84 results in the identification of several rh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1988
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| In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 1988, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 18-32 |
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| Summary: | Fundamentalism as a religious movement has had an ambivalent relationship with American culture. This study seeks to explain recent changes in that relationship. A rhetorical-critical analysis of 100 articles from the Fundamentalist Journal between 1982-84 results in the identification of several rhetorical claims made by the new Fundamentalism, including claims of legitimation, change, and expansion. Three sociorhetorical strategies also emerge from the rhetorical claims--a re-articulation of legitimate change, a re-definition of significant symbols, and a re-orientation to this world. Theoretically, these rhetorical strategies are interpreted as an indication of conservative religion's cognitive bargaining with the more secular culture, especially by its renegotiation of symbolic boundaries. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511837 |
