Spreading the word : persuasive performance techniques used by Christian fundamentalist evangelists

Catsi, G

Spreading the word : persuasive performance techniques used by Christian fundamentalist evangelists

Catsi, G

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dc.contributor.author	Catsi, G
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-01T02:57:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-01T02:57:17Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36968
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Framed by theories of persuasion, this Doctorate of Creative Arts explores the role of the persuasive performance styles of Christian fundamentalist evangelists in increasing the number of church followers. I ask: What makes people convert and then continue to believe, follow, and stay? Is there a relationship between evangelical performativity, the social, economic and political context, and people’s decisions to commit to and remain in evangelical churches? The doctoral creative project, I Want to Be Slim, seeks to personify these tools and techniques of persuasion in the behaviour of a theatrical evangelical character, the Reverend Slim Limits. Research into evangelism and evangelical performativity informed the creative development of the performance script. This creative work is written as a satirical cross-platform project involving theatrical performance and digital media, including social networking. This exegesis draws out the connections between the creative performance script and the broader critical cultural and sociological discussion of the research. The purpose is to give immediacy to the research and demonstrate how it has had direct outcomes in the creative work.	en_US
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dc.title	Spreading the word : persuasive performance techniques used by Christian fundamentalist evangelists	en_US
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Abstract:

Framed by theories of persuasion, this Doctorate of Creative Arts explores the role of the persuasive performance styles of Christian fundamentalist evangelists in increasing the number of church followers. I ask: What makes people convert and then continue to believe, follow, and stay? Is there a relationship between evangelical performativity, the social, economic and political context, and people’s decisions to commit to and remain in evangelical churches? The doctoral creative project, I Want to Be Slim, seeks to personify these tools and techniques of persuasion in the behaviour of a theatrical evangelical character, the Reverend Slim Limits. Research into evangelism and evangelical performativity informed the creative development of the performance script. This creative work is written as a satirical cross-platform project involving theatrical performance and digital media, including social networking. This exegesis draws out the connections between the creative performance script and the broader critical cultural and sociological discussion of the research. The purpose is to give immediacy to the research and demonstrate how it has had direct outcomes in the creative work.

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