From Exotics to Brainwashers: Portraying New Religions in Mass Media
This essay examines how American magazines have portrayed new religions since the World War II. Media depictions have changed dramatically from the 1950s to the present. Specifically, journalists in the 1950s and early 1960s used the dual Cold War themes of exoticism and subversion to depict new rel...
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2007
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Religion compass
Year: 2007, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 214-228 |
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