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4 - Stories and Storylines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Stephen Pihlaja
Affiliation:
Newman University, Birmingham
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This chapter investigates the stories that are present in the dataset and how positions are developed within particular stories to reveal insights about how users view themselves as storytellers, how they view their audiences, and what they understand about themselves in society. The chapter looks specifically at how stories of conversion and reversion to Christianity, atheism, and Islam are used to convince others. The chapter argues that there are similarities in how users talk about coming to religious faith, or about leaving religious faith. The analysis also shows that many of the stories and storylines in the discourse of the users is similar to historical ways of portraying people of faith and atheists.
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Religious Talk Online
The Evangelical Discourse of Muslims, Christians, and Atheists
, pp. 89 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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