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The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue

By Steiner, Mark Allan

The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue Social Sciences

The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue

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The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue is a comprehensive examination of the rhetoric of Operation Rescue, a pro-life social protest group (prominent between 1988 and 1992) that orchestrated blockades of clinics where abortions are performed. Steiner examines how the group sought to persuade people-primarily conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christians-to join their ranks, as well as how they sought to use their form of social protest to achieve their public policy goals. In so doing, Steiner explains both the group's initial success (beginning with its 1988 "Siege of Atlanta" protests) and its ultimate failure. More fundamentally, though, Steiner shows how the group appealed to the convictions of conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christians in the United States. He shows how the rhetoric of Operation Rescue-for those conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists that found it convincing-shaped fundamental understandings of what their Christian faith means, how to practice it in an authentic manner, and how to engage in public dialogue and political activism.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2006-05-30
Publication Date:
2006-05-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0567025721
ISBN13:
9780567025722
Weight:
351 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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