This thesis uses principles from Burke's Rhetoric of Identification to examine how apocalyptic prophecies foster and maintain an apocalyptic group identity. Jehovah's Witnesses were used as a sample apocalyptic group because they comprise a group with a heavy textual and symbolic focus on the apocalypse.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-4399 |
Date | 01 January 2011 |
Creators | Kacarab, Katherine Elizabeth |
Publisher | CSUSB ScholarWorks |
Source Sets | California State University San Bernardino |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Theses Digitization Project |
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