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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Auteurs: Mathisen, Gerald S. (Auteur) ; Mathisen, James A. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 1988
Dans: Review of religious research
Année: 1988, Volume: 30, Numéro: 1, Pages: 18-32
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contient:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3511837