| Popis: |
This chapter begins by defining the basic characteristics of countersubversion ideology, then provides those characteristics to the satanic cult case. It argues that the satanism scare is similarly rooted in an institutional crisis. The chapter describes the scare's considerable social impact, despite the absence of validating evidence. It analyzes how incompatibility between family and economy makes the countersubversion ideology culturally plausible. The chapter outlines the key elements of one major strand of the satanic cult narrative, that involving ritual abuse and sacrifice of children in daycare facilities. The satanism scare has been to the 1980s and early 1990s what the religious cult scare was to the 1970s. On the moral/normative dimension, subversives are attributed a qualitatively different, inferior moral essence. On the cathectic/subjective dimension, subversives are attributed the capability of reconfiguring and redirecting the basis for adaptation, loyalty, and mutual expectations in the social order to evil purpose. |
