03228nam 2200601Ia 450 991082865120332120240418140649.0979-88-908767-7-50-8078-6366-1(CKB)1000000000452658(EBL)413354(OCoLC)70720487(SSID)ssj0000196142(PQKBManifestationID)11189562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196142(PQKBWorkID)10142490(PQKB)10319085(Au-PeEL)EBL413354(CaPaEBR)ebr10075651(CaONFJC)MIL929611(MiAaPQ)EBC413354(EXLCZ)99100000000045265820030716d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking the American religious fringe[electronic resource] exotics, subversives, and journalists, 1955-1993 /Sean McCloud1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5496-4 0-8078-2829-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-259) and index.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, 1959–1965Part 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; 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 religions as "mainstream" or "fringe" in the post-World War II United States.Mass media in religionUnited StatesHistoryCultsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesChurch history20th centuryMass media in religionHistory.CultsHistory.070.4/492McCloud Sean1624125MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828651203321Making the American religious fringe3958938UNINA