Superchurch
Subtitle: The Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781609174477
Subjects: Fundamentalism; Fundamentalist churches
Description: To many outsiders, Fundamentalist speech seems contradictory, irrational, intolerant, and dangerously antidemocratic. To understand the complexity of Fundamentalism, we have to look inside the tensions and the paradoxes. We have to take seriously the ways in which Fundamentalists describe themselves to themselves, and to do that, we must begin by exploring the central role of "the church" in Fundamentalist rhetoric and politics. Edwards blends a complex yet readable treatment of rhetorical and political theory with a sophisticated approach to Fundamentalism that neither dismisses its appeal nor glosses over its irresolvable tensions.