Religion and Topoi in the News: An Analysis of the "Unsecular Media" Hypothesis

Rick Clifton Moore

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Silk (1995) proposed in Unsecular Media that journalists operate with a limited series of topoi and that these are borrowed from religion. Silk thus claimed when journalists write about religion, they do so in a way that ultimately supports religious values. In this study, I apply topic analysis to recent news coverage of Jesse Jackson's marital infidelity to determine the extent to which the topos of hypocrisy was employed and whether this employment supported or challenged a religious (as opposed to secular) worldview.

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1996Unsecular media: making news of religion in America 1994Bridging the Gap: Religion and the News Media 1986An Analysis of Religion News Coverage in Three Major Newspapers 1987Large Daily Newspapers Have Improved Coverage of Religion

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