Newspaper Leaders as Moral Exhortation: Understanding the Rhetoric of Civil Religion in Colonial Australia
This article argues that the leading article, or leader, of a newspaper played a role in the ‘secular’ society of colonial Australia not unlike that of the sermon in the religious sphere. One of its primary objectives was moral exhortation to encourage Australian colonists to follow a path that woul...
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2023
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Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 4 |
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B Civil Religion B Britishness B Newspapers B Democracy B Protestantism |
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