Frederick Stecker

The Podium, the Pulpit, and the Republicans (eBook, ePUB)

How Presidential Candidates Use Religious Language in American Political Debate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the presidential debates of 2000, 2004, and 2008 are analyzed in terms of linguistics, rhetoric, and religious context to offer a unique perspective on the styles, beliefs, and strategies of the two major parties and their candidates. In The Podium, the Pulpit, and the Republicans: How Presidential Candidates Use Religious Language in American Political Debate, a veteran minister analyzes the religious metaphors Republicans use at the podium and alleges that the party deliberately employs blaming tactics, fear metaphors, and coded references to apocalyptic judgment to sway undecided voters. Over the past 40 years, Frederick Stecker charges, the Republican Party has created fear for political expediency. Stecker's book traces the development of the Republican rhetoric of polarization and applies the linguistics-based "nation-as-a-family" political typology of George Lakoff to an analysis of the presidential debates of 2000, 2004, and 2008. He demonstrates how Republican candidates select their language and metaphors to signal adherence to rigid belief systems and simple, black-and-white choices in domestic and foreign policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216128885
• Artikelnr.: 70037227

Autorenporträt

Frederick Stecker is a supply priest in the Episcopal Dioceses of Vermont and New Hampshire and was the Rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in New London, NH, for 23 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Charles C. Lemert Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Parenting
Models and Religious Beliefs 2 Tracing the Origins of the New Right 3 The
Religious Right 4 Assessing the Impact 5 Politics 2000 and Beyond 6 America
and the Presidency in a Post-9/11 World 7 Issues of Security: The 2004
Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates 8 Religion and Induced Fear: The
Stealth Manipulation of the American Public 9 The Residual Effects of the
2004 Presidential Contest 10 The Race to 2008: The Republicans, the
Democrats, and Their Nominees 11 2008: The Democratic and Republican
National Conventions and the Prelude to the Presidential Debates 12 The
2008 Presidential Debates and the Presidential Election Afterword Notes
Selected Bibliography Index