Failed Crusade: Afghanistan as Liberal Holy War in Presidential Discourse.
This paper argues that the twenty-year U.S. war in Afghanistan can persuasively be viewed as a holy war prosecuted on behalf of American-style liberalism. To make this argument, it develops a framework for understanding holy war as an issue of communication and draws on the work of Émile Durkheim, P...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 5 - 29 |
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