Religious Rhetoric: Dividing a Nation or Building Community

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Religious Rhetoric: Dividing a Nation or Building Community examines religious rhetoric and its creation of both division and unity from a variety of perspectives and issues. Religion, in a variety of forms, is central to our understanding of who we are and how we respond to the world around us. Even those who claim not to have a religious faith have religion in the sense that they have a particular worldview through which they understand and react to the world around them. By examining religious rhetoric in a variety of contexts, thsi book uncovers the cultural impact of this rhetoric on our political, community, and personal systems of understanding.

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Edward C. Brewer is professor of communication studies and director of the Strategic Communication Graduate Certificate at Appalachian State University.