The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric: Absolutist Appeals and Political Persuasion
The climatologist's fear that our warming atmosphere will soon raise sea levels to dangerous heights finds its counterpart in the social scientist's anxiety about a rising tide of politicized religiosity. Many have responded with apocalyptic visions of a coming flood: higher superstition r...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 583-584 |
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| Summary: | The climatologist's fear that our warming atmosphere will soon raise sea levels to dangerous heights finds its counterpart in the social scientist's anxiety about a rising tide of politicized religiosity. Many have responded with apocalyptic visions of a coming flood: higher superstition rising ever higher and threatening to wash our democratic liberties out to sea. A search for the “religious right” on Amazon.com will bring up titles like Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All, with a forward by Richard Dawkins, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America, and Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst049 |