TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marietta,Morgan
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The politics of sacred rhetoric: absolutist appeals and political persuasion 
T2  - Studies in rhetoric and religion
SN  - 9781602583887
AV  - BL2525 .M358 2012
U1  - 322/.10973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Waco, Tex.
PB  - Baylor University Press
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Ethical absolutism
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index; Sacred rhetoric in American politics -- Values and value conflict, sacred values, and sacred rhetoric -- The reasoning effect: sacred rhetoric and deliberation -- The activation effect: sacred rhetoric and participation -- "From my cold, dead hands": sacred rhetoric and social movements -- The absolutist advantage: sacred rhetoric in the Bush era -- Sacred rhetoric from Carter to Clinton: the 1976-1996 presidential debates -- Sacred rhetoric, the 2008 campaigns, and the Democratic Party -- Conclusion: "a cure for thought and the diseases it breeds"
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781602583887/
ER  -