Dueling Fundamentalisms

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Notes

1. Sharon Crowley, Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), 12.

2. Jeffery Shupe and Anson Hadden, “Introduction,” in Secularization and Fundamentalism Reconsidered (New York: Paragon House, 1996), 109. The series was financed by Christian oil magnate brothers who founded Union Oil, which eventually became oil giant Unocal—an interesting historical confirmation of Connolly's argument about the resonance between cowboy capitalism and evangelical belief.

3. See Joel Carpenter's Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

4. Christian Lundberg and Joshua Gunn, “Ouija Board are there any Communications?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35 (2005), 83–106.

5. Crowley, x.

6. Crowley (31–32), for example explicitly sets the coercive and violent functions of force against rhetoric as a form of persuasion. Though Crowley ably lays out a form of rhetorical appeal that extends beyond the traditional “liberal model” to the passions, emotions, and other “non-rational” modes of persuasion, she is squarely in the liberal tradition in her framing of rhetoric's relation to antagonism.

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Christian O. Lundberg

Christian O. Lundberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he does work in rhetoric and cultural studies. His dissertation, Evangelical Economies of Violence and the Politics of Imaginary Publics, was directed by Dilip Gaonkar