The word as weapon: sermons as organizational discourse during the 1979 Southern Baptist Convention

• Maria A. Dixon ^[1]
  1. [1] Southern Methodist University

     Southern Methodist University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 82, nº 3, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Organizational Communication and Religion), págs. 175-184
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As part of a larger multiyear examination of the discourse surrounding the split of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1979–1989, this article exam- ines the ways in which Fundamentalists utilized their 1979 convention sermons as means to define their vision for the organizational soul of the Southern Baptist Convention. Consequently, this article explores how ser- mons function as more than theological discourse but as key organizational rhetoric in the life and conflict of religious organizations.