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- Title
The “War on Christianity”: Counterpublicity or Hegemonic Containment?
- Authors
Duerringer, Christopher
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANITY; PUBLICITY; CONTAINMENT (Political science); CHURCH &; politics; GIBSON, John; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
Southern Communication Journal, 2013, Vol 78, Issue 4, p311
- ISSN
1041-794X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/1041794X.2013.792866