Religious rhetoric and American politics
Subtitle: the endurance of civil religion in electoral campaigns
By: Christopher B. Chapp
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780801451263
Subjects: Rhetoric; Political campaigns; Civil religion; Religion and politics; Identity politics; Christianity
Description: "Examines the role of religious political rhetoric in American elections by analyzing both how political elites use religious language, and how voters respond to different expressions of religion in the public sphere"--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A theory of religious rhetoric in American campaigns; title: Religious rhetoric in American political history; title: Religious rhetoric and the politics of identity; title: Religious rhetoric and the politics of emotive appeals; title: The consequences of religious language on presidential candidate evaluations; title: Civil religion identity and the task of political representation; title: The rhetorical construction of religious constituencies.