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Jimmy Swaggart's Secular Confession
dc.contributor.author | Tell, Dave | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-30T17:19:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-30T17:19:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Tell, Dave. “Jimmy Swaggart’s Secular Confession.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39.2 (Spring 2009): 124-146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02773940902766748 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/9192 | |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version is available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02773940902766748 . | |
dc.description.abstract | Following the exposure of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s illicit rendezvous with a New Orleans prostitute, the Assemblies of God simultaneously orchestrated a massive attempt to silence those who would discuss the tryst and arranged the most widely publicized confession in American history theretofore. The coincidence of a “silence campaign” with the vast distribution of a public confession invites us to reconsider the nature of the public confession. For what place has a public confession, the discourse of disclosure par excellence, in a silence campaign? This question is best answered, I argue, if we understand public confession not as a stable a-historical form, but as a practice that is informed by multiple, competing traditions. I argue that by situating Swaggart’s performance in a philosophically modern and secular tradition of public confession we can understand both its complicity in a silence campaign and, more generally, the political logic of the modern public confession. | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | |
dc.subject | Swaggart, Jimmy | |
dc.title | Jimmy Swaggart's Secular Confession | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Tell, Dave | |
kusw.kudepartment | Communication Studies | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02773940902766748 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |