Detecting a common interpretive framework for impersonal violence: The homology in participants’ rhetoric on sport hunting, “hate crimes,” and stranger rape

Olson, Kenneth B.

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“…Religious appeals are used to justify all sorts of behavior. But these examples illustrate why Christianity could be one of the louder voices calling out for an alternative to a system where whole groups of unfavored people are sacrificed to the purity of the market (see Olson, 2002). In Osteen's discourse, the potential for Christianity to attack the market is neutralized and transformed into commodity-driven fetishism where his audience has moral permission, if not divine responsibility, to consume and display the symbols of capitalist, market-driven success.…”

Section: Religious Formation and Osteen's Imaged Othermentioning

confidence: 94%

The Imaged Other: Style and Substance in the Rhetoric of Joel Osteen

Winslow

2014

Southern Communication Journal

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Aesthetic images increasingly organize social relationships. Theorizing the constitutive potential of the aesthetic is a worthy task for communication and rhetorical scholars. This article integrates rhetorical methods with the critical instruments of Visual Theory to offer a comprehensive account of the relationship between the aesthetic image, social formations, and cultural constraints. I do so by analyzing the rhetoric of Joel Osteen, a popular evangelical minster. Osteen employs aesthetic rationales to construct an Imaged Other capable of separating what he calls God's favored from the unfavored. By deliberately featuring aesthetic dimensions including physical attractiveness, body shape, posture, hygiene, and de´cor, Osteen's discourse lends insight into an increasingly important way our social relationships are organized.Our social worlds are increasingly organized by the aesthetic image. The dominant mode of expression upon which meaning is created and exchanged now occurs on the terrain of the visual: Elementary schools teach fourth graders PowerPoint rather than critical writing and laud attractive presentations that get basic facts wrong; our houses of worship have learned to attract younger members by exchanging the substance of theological rigor and pious asceticism for the aesthetically pleasing spectacle; businesses increasingly use the aesthetic as the primary tool for generating sales and profit. And in politics, an understanding or why Sarah Palin and not Chris Christie has as much to do with hairlines and waistlines as it does with policy statements and political experience (Brummett, 2008, p.

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Section: Religious Formation and Osteen's Imaged Othermentioning

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The Imaged Other: Style and Substance in the Rhetoric of Joel Osteen

Winslow

2014

Southern Communication Journal

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“…A homology can bring together such divergent individuals as the rapist and the sportsman in order to demonstrate how discourses may not seek the same ends, but employ the same means and exert the same impact on society-at-large (see Olson, 2002). With this in mind, the present essay enjoins the overtly variant groups of RTL and AR, but looks beyond subject (fetuses and animals), association with political parties (Republican and Green Party), and rhetorical ends (legislative/judicial change and lifestyle change) in order to examine the covert essence of both movements: the extension of rights.…”

Section: Discovering Rhetorical Homologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending the rights of personhood, voice, and life to sensate others: A homology of right to life and animal rights rhetoric

Black

2003

Communication Quarterly

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“…Marginalized groups are then prevented from engaging in self-definition and self-determination (Collins, 1998). This Othering process can lead to demonizing other cultural groups (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2000, p. 30), stereotyping groups as magical, violent, and comical (Perks, Winslow, & Avital, 2008, p. 33), representing others as ignorant, poor, and uneducated (Gandhi, 1998, p. 86), failing to recognize individuals in the group and perceiving them as prey (Olson, 2008), and excluding group members from social power and status (Thomson, 1997). Once these myths about the Other become established as "fact," they can be circulated repeatedly until their origins are lost and their truth unquestioned (Caramagno, 2002, p. 171).…”

Section: A Otheringmentioning

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Oppression by Scientific Method: The Use of Science to “Other” Sexual Minorities

Mohr

2009

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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) civil rights have become a major focus of the legislative agenda of a variety of organizations in support of and in opposition to those rights. This growing interest in LGB civil rights can be seen through the increasing news reports and political discussions concerning marriage equality, the addition of sexual orientation as a protected class to hate crime laws and workplace nondiscrimination legislation, the elimination of the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy, and the right of LGB people to adopt children. As these issues move to the forefront, different groups attempt to use scientific reports, studies, and perspectives as one way to promote their viewpoints.

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Detecting a common interpretive framework for impersonal violence: The homology in participants’ rhetoric on sport hunting, “hate crimes,” and stranger rape

Cited by 22 publications

References 17 publications

The Imaged Other: Style and Substance in the Rhetoric of Joel Osteen

The Imaged Other: Style and Substance in the Rhetoric of Joel Osteen

Extending the rights of personhood, voice, and life to sensate others: A homology of right to life and animal rights rhetoric

Oppression by Scientific Method: The Use of Science to “Other” Sexual Minorities

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