A Burkean analysis of Jehovah's Witness apocalyptic rhetoric
This thesis uses principles from Burke's Rhetoric of Identification to examine how apocalyptic prophecies foster and maintain an apocalyptic group identity. Jehovah's Witnesses were used as a sample apocalyptic group because they comprise a group with a heavy textual and symbolic focus on...
Main Author: | Kacarab, Katherine Elizabeth |
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Format: | Others |
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CSUSB ScholarWorks
2011
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3315 https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4399&context=etd-project |
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