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Making the American religious fringe : exotics, subversives, and journalists, 1955-1993 /

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 "mainstre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCloud, Sean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exoticism and the dangers of religious zeal: differentiating fringe from mainstream, 1955-1965
  • Race, class, and the subversive Cold War other: depicting the Nation of Islam, 1959-1965
  • The Buddha, the Hobbit, and the Christ: depicting the middle-class fringe, 1966-1972
  • Making the cult menace: brainwashing, deprogramming, mass suicide, and other heresies, 1973-1979
  • Essentializing the margins: the American religious fringe into the nineties.