| Demons by Definition: Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent Contributor(s): Rauch, Irmengard (Editor), O'Rourke, David K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820439282 ISBN-13: 9780820439280 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Religion | Psychology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 98002642 |
| Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, |
| Physical Information: 147 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the Albigensian Crusades to the wartime incarceration of the Japanese Americans, O'Rourke describes how idealists use language and metaphor to justify the demonization of groups they have defined into dissent. Among the episodes described are the development of the inquisitorial method in medieval Languedoc, the prosecution of women healers in Puritan Massachusetts, the persecution of the early Mormons, and Himmler's blueprint for an SS-owned feudal state in Eastern Europe. |