Religious Rhetoric and American Politics
President Obama concluded his 2012 speech at the prayer vigil for the Newtown shooting victims with these words: “May God bless and keep those we've lost in His heavenly place. May He grace those we still have with His holy comfort, and may He bless and watch over this community and the United...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2013
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 553-555 |
| Review of: | Religious rhetoric and American politics (Ithaca [u.a.] : Cornell Univ. Press, 2012) (Soper, J. Christopher)
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| Summary: | President Obama concluded his 2012 speech at the prayer vigil for the Newtown shooting victims with these words: “May God bless and keep those we've lost in His heavenly place. May He grace those we still have with His holy comfort, and may He bless and watch over this community and the United States of America.” As Christopher Chapp demonstrates quite effectively in his Religious Rhetoric and American Politics, the use of religious language by President Obama is hardly unusual. Religious rhetoric has been a core part of political discourse from the Founding to today. What is less clear is what impact the use of such language has on political campaigns and public opinion. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt040 |