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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination
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The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism
New York: Cambridge University Press (2014), xiii, 340 pp.
Trânsitos religiosos, cultura e mídia: A expansão neopentecostal
São Paulo: Paulus (2014), 438 pp.
Religion in Latin America: Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region
Pew Research Center (2014), 309 pp.
"Overall, 84% of Latin American adults report that they were raised Catholic, 15 percentage points more than currently identify as Catholic. The pattern is reversed among Protestants and people who do not identify with any religion: While the Catholic Church has lost adherents through religious swit
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Missão Midiática Afrikania: Representando a “Religião Tradicional Afrikana” na esfera pública cristã em Gana
Religião e Sociedade, volume 34, issue 2 (2014), pp. 161-183
"No campo de estudos de religião e mídia, a importância da comunicação de massa está bem estabelecida para as religiões globalizadas tais como o cristianismo e o islamismo, mas o mesmo não se verifica com relação às religiões nativas africanas. O presente artigo busca preencher essa lacu
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: A Church of Strangers
New York; London: Cambridge University Press; International African Institute (2014), xxii, 280 pp.
"The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic churches (PCCs), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be dev
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Pentecostalism in Brazil: Churches, Businesses and Political Parties
KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2012), pp. 41-58
"For many years now, the sphere of the main Pentecostal denominations has gone way beyond their physical churches and members. To some extent, they operate like businesses, and they use the media to exert a strong influence on society. Some of them own national TV stations and publish high-circulati
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Television and the Gospel of Entertainment in Ghana
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 144-164
"Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields. They shape new forms of public religiosity that spill over into various forms of popular culture and resonate with broad audiences. This article explores the emergence of new Pentecostal publics at
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Programa 'Fala Que Eu Te Escuto': O duelo subliminar entre Deus e o Diabo na terra do televangelismo
"O presente artigo tem como tema central o programa Fala Que Eu Te Escuto, produzido pela Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. Exibido diariamente no início da madrugada na Rede Record, trata-se de um programa em que o sagrado traveste-se de profano. Embora dê a impressão de ser um programa secular
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Religious branded content: Entretenimento, mídia e marca nas ações publicitárias da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, volume 12, issue 2 (2012), pp. 81-99
"A comunicação cujo conteúdo é centrado nas qualidades e nos diferenciais da marca religiosa, exatamente como é recorrente nas ações da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, busca relacionar os benefícios do entretenimento a ela, possibilitando à igreja integrar sua imagem marcária ao discurs
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"Casos de família": Um olhar sobre o contexto da disputa “Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus x Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus” nas mídias
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, volume 12, issue 2 (2012), pp. 101-110
"A propósito das disputas entre a Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus e a Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus no primeiro semestre de 2012, o artigo estuda a dimensão do espetáculo e do mercado cultural religioso nas mídias. Por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória dos principais escândalos e embates e
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How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 120-143
"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th
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‘Paroles De Vie’: Christian Radio Producers in the Republic of Benin
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 161-188
"In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maran
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Business of the Spirit: Ghanaian Broadcast Media and the Commercial Exploitation of Pentecostalism
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 189-204
"This article takes a critical look at Ghana’s rapidly evolving broadcasting scene and in particular at the expansion and popularity of religious broadcasting. Sketching the developments of the Ghanaian media landscape, it analyses the changing politics of representing religion in this field. The
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A atuaçao dos evangélicos no rádio brasileiro: Origem e expansao
São Bernardo do Campo: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Master Thesis (2011), 169 pp.
Religion and Celebrity
Australian Religion Studies Review, volume 24, issue 3 (2011), pp. 227-360
"This issue of Australian Religion Studies Review examines the intersection of religion and celebrity, both major discourses in the modern world. The six articles examine the imbrication of celebrity with: three traditional religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism; the new religion of Candomblé;
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Midia e religião: Entre o mundo da fé e o do fiel
Rio de Janeiro: Editora E-papers (2010), 197 pp.
