The “War on Christianity”: counterpublicity or hegemonic containment?

• Duerringer, Christopher ^[1]
  1. [1] Arkansas Tech University

     Arkansas Tech University

     Township of Illinois, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 78, nº 4, 2013, págs. 311-325
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay takes up an enduring genre of authoritative discourses that decry the persecution of America's predominant religion. In this essay, I contend that existing theory about counterpublics requires revision in order to provide a compelling critical response to this text and others like it; and second, pending my revision, I argue that the rhetoric of the “War on Christmas” illustrates a particularly powerful strategy of political containment available to hegemonic publics.