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Title Global and local televangelism / edited by Pradip Ninan Thomas and Philip Lee
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages)
Contents Foreword / N. Echchaibi -- Global & Local Televangelism: An Introduction / P.N. Thomas & P. Lee -- PART I. ISLAMIC TELEVANGELISM: ON PRIESTS & PROPHETS. Storytelling, Sincerity and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt / Y. Moll -- Islamic Televangelism in Changing Indonesia: Transmission, Authority, and The Politics of Ideas / A. Muzakki -- Islamic Televangelism: The Salafi Window to their Paradise / I. Saleh -- PART II. CHRISTIAN TELEVANGELISM: BRANDING THE GLOBAL & THE LOCAL. Preaching the Good News Glad: Joel Osteen's Tel-e-vangelism / P.L. Sinitiere -- The global in the local: the ambivalence and ambition of Christian televangelism in India / J.D. James -- Hearing, Viewing and being Touched by the Spirit: Televangelism in Contemporary African Christianity / J.K. Asamoah-Gyadu -- PART III. HINDU TELEVANGELISM: AN EMERGING PHENOMENON. The Avatars of Baba Ramdev: The Politics, Economics, and Contradictions of an Indian Televangelist / S. Chakravarti -- PART IV. TELEVANGELISM, POLITICS & POPULAR CULTURE. From Televisuality to social activism: Nigerian televangelists and their Socio-Political Agenda / W.C. Ihejirika -- God's Politicians: Pentecostals, Media and Politics in Guatemala and Brazil / D.A. Smith & L.S. Campos -- Religiosity as Mediated Space: Mass Meditation in Contemporary Thailand / A. Feungfusakul -- Whither Televangelism: Opportunities, Trends, Challenges / P.N. Thomas
Summary "Televangelism is an evolving global phenomenon. While it may have begun in the USA in the late 1960s, the liberalization of global television in the 1990s along with the spread of satellite and cable television has enabled a variety of global and local expressions of televangelism today. The spread of Islamic television in the Arab world and Indonesia shows no sign of abating, while the Hindu televangelist Baba Ramdev has become a household name through his marketing of yoga-based health and well being products. This book explores and engages with the changing face of global and local televangelism -- with the globalization of Christian televangelism in India, Nigeria, Ghana, Guatemala and Brazil, and with the branded nature of televangelism in contemporary USA. While US style televangelism has influenced its Islamic and Hindu variants, it is clear there is an evolving local tenor that is influenced as much by local cultural and religious practices as by economics and politics. The resurgence of religious identities the world over has been accompanied by the presence of religion in the media. These media have been put to use in multiple intra and inter-religious battles over souls and purses and these struggles, in particular, have been fought out on television screens"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Television in religion.
Religious issues & debates.
Christian mission & evangelism.
TV & society.
RELIGION -- Education.
Religion.
Television in religion
Form Electronic book
Author Thomas, Pradip.
Lee, Philip, 1952-
ISBN 9781137264817
1137264810