Specialized, Ecclesial Ideography: The <New Evangelization> in the Catholic Church

ABSTRACT This article suggests that analysis of ideographs is useful within specialized contexts. The authors analyze the emergence of the <new evangelization> as an ideograph in the Roman Catholic Church at international, national, and local levels – metropolitan Detroit in particular. With i...

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Published inMichigan academician Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21
Main Authors Bennett-Carpenter, Benjamin R, McCallion, Michael J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Alma Michigan Academy of Science Arts & Letters 22.12.2012
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters
Subjects
American literature
Anthropology
Burke, Kenneth (1897-1993)
Catholic churches
Culture
Evangelicalism
Evangelism
Ideograms
Ideography
Interest groups
Jargon
Language
Mormonism
Plasticity
Politics
Rhetoric
Studies
United States
United States > US
Michigan
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Summary:ABSTRACT This article suggests that analysis of ideographs is useful within specialized contexts. The authors analyze the emergence of the <new evangelization> as an ideograph in the Roman Catholic Church at international, national, and local levels – metropolitan Detroit in particular. With its remarkable plasticity and power, <new evangelization> rhetoric has come to galvanize the leadership of the Catholic Church even as varying or conflicting ideas are advanced under that rhetoric. The <new evangelization> operates as a specialized ideograph that remains primarily internal to the Catholic Church but has implications beyond it. The authors suggest a continued and extensive application for analyzing ideographs in culture.
ISSN:0026-2005
2167-8634
DOI:10.7245/0026-2005-41.1.1