American catastrophe : fundamentalism, climate change, gun rights, and the rhetoric of Donald J. Trump /

Explores studies of Christian fundamentalism, anti-environmentalism, gun rights messaging, and the Trump administration to understand why appeals to catastrophe are attractive. Uses rhetorical homology as a tool for understanding how people across disparate religious, ecological, cultural and politi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Winslow, Luke, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Disasters > Social aspects > United States. Fundamentalism > United States. Anti-environmentalism > United States. Climatic changes > United States. Firearms > Social aspects > United States. Marginality, Social > United States. Rhetoric.

Table of Contents:

Christian fundamentalism and the catastrophic homology
Ecological catastrophe and the rhetoric of anti-environmentalism
Cultural catastrophe and the rhetoric of gun rights
Political catastrophe and the rhetoric of Donald Trump
Conclusion: Consequences and alternatives.