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The Political Priest: Multiple Stances, Multiple Selves

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Identities can be multiple, in conflict, or incongruous, and individuals play a complex game managing them in interaction. This chapter explores the case of a discussion with Steven, where the intersections and tensions between his political and religious identities provide a window onto stance multiplicity. There are always tensions within identity genesis; Steven’s case shows how these can be managed when becoming a political person in discourse.

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Woodhams, J.M. (2019). The Political Priest: Multiple Stances, Multiple Selves. In: Political Identity in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18630-2_6

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