Framing Catholicism
Jack Chick's Anti-Catholic Cartoons and the Flexible Boundaries of the Culture Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Ian Borer (corresponding author), Adam Murphree |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-112 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.2008.18.1.95 |
| OpenAlex | W2076710402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
In order to understand the practice of "culture wars work," we examined the claims of a particularly vocal evangelist, Jack T. Chick. Chick is a writer and cartoonist known both positively and negatively for his "Chick tracts." Chick tracts are small twenty-four-page black-andwhite comic books that attempt to convert the reader to Chick's particular brand of "Bible-believing" Protestant Christianity. We focused on Chick's claim about Catholicism in order to show how theological and ideological boundaries can be constructed between presumably allied religious populations. Chick presents his anti-Catholicism using three main frames: (1) the associative frame-Catholicism is not only one of many social problems but is also cause of a number of them, (2) the subversive frame-the Catholic church is a political villain, and (3) the hidden agenda frame-Catholicism has not remained true to the authoritative teachings of Christianity and has embraced a secretly progressive worldview. Investigating a culture war claims maker like Chick, who purposely disrupts what presumably would be an orthodox or conservative alliance, reveals the process of symbolic boundary making within cultural/ moral/religious conflicts
Alliance · Art · Cartoonist · Christianity · Comics · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |