@article {2068,
	title = {Who would Jesus bomb? The Republican Jesus meme and the fracturing of ideology},
	journal = {Social Media + Society},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2016},
	month = {Jan-March},
	pages = {1-12},
	abstract = {This project joins a growing conversation about the cultural significance of memes (and Internet memes in particular), offering a critical analysis of Republican Jesus{\textemdash}one popular image macro that mocks contemporary American conservatism{\textemdash}in order to illustrate the rhetorical potential of these putatively harmless do-it yourself (DIY) creations. Ultimately, I argue that Republican Jesus offers a critique of contemporary conservatism that creates {\textquotedblleft}perspective by incongruity{\textquotedblright} and, thereby, creates a space for ideological struggle.},
	keywords = {Ideology, Jesus, meme},
	url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305116637095$\#$articleCitationDownloadContainer},
	author = {Duerringer, C. A}
}
