"Christian Worldview": A Defining Symbolic Term of the American Evangelical Speech Code.
In the speech code of American evangelicalism, the symbolic term "Christian worldview" and its companion term "biblical worldview" are ubiquitous. Speech codes theory (SCT) holds that symbolic terms simply and quickly communicate complex ideas, values, and meanings that are taken for granted in the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 5 - 29 |
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Fall2023
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