The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message
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The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message

The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message

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Mark Allan Steiner (Author)  

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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.
Mark Allan Steiner is Assistant Professor of in the School of Communication and Arts at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  • Contributor: Mark Allan Steiner
  • Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9780567025722
  • Number of Pages: 232
  • Packaged Weight: 400
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Release Date: 2006-06-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Mark Allan Steiner is Assistant Professor of in the School of Communication and Arts at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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