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McCloud Sean |
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Making the American religious fringe [[electronic resource] ] : exotics, subversives, and journalists, 1955-1993 / / Sean McCloud |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Mass media in religion - United States - History |
Cults - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
United States Church history 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Argument One: From Mass Movements, Exoticism, and Subversion to Individuals, Brainwashing, and Coercion; Argument Two: Societal Change, Identity Construction, and the Journalistic Habitus; Methods; Sources; Caveats; Organization; Part I. Monitoring the Marginal Masses: Exoticism, Zealotry, and Subversion during the Cold War, 1955–1965; 1. Exoticism and the Dangers of Religious Zeal: Differentiating Fringe from Mainstream, 1955–1965; 2. Race, Class, and the Subversive Cold War Other: Depicting the Nation of Islam, 1959–1965 |
Part II. Reconstructing an American Religious Fringe, 1966–19933. The Buddha, the Hobbit, and the Christ: Depicting the Middle-Class Fringe, 1966–1972; 4. Making the Cult Menace: Brainwashing, Deprogramming, Mass Suicide, and Other Heresies, 1973–1979; 5. Essentializing the Margins: The American Religious Fringe into the Nineties; Epilogue; Notes; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A-B; C; D-G; H-J; K-M; N; O-S; T; U-Z; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted |
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religions as "mainstream" or "fringe" in the post-World War II United States. |
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