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Religião e mercado: A mídia empresarial-religiosa
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, issue 1 (2005), pp. 54-67
"Em geral os estudos sobre a relação evangélicos e mídia se notabilizam pela apreciação geral que fazem do assunto. Considerando a situação de pluralismo religioso e a sociedade contemporânea como mercadológica e a necessidade de se estudar as rádios evangélicas do Rio de Janeiro, mostra
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Christianity and Television in Guatemala and Brazil: The Pentecostal Experience
Studies in World Christianity, volume 11, issue 1 (2005), pp. 49-64
"This article will describe the impact of North American religious television in two very different Latin American contexts: Guatemala in Central America and Brazil in South America. From these common North American roots, Guatemala and Brazil provide contrasting case studies of how religious entrep
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Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 155-181
"This article addresses the interface of video-films and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. This interface, it is argued, needs to be examined from a position that transcends the confines of film studies and religious studies and leaves behind a secularist perspective on the relationship
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Entre o palanque e o púlpito: Mídia, religião e política
São Paulo: Annablume (2005), 123 pp.
Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2004), 256 pp.
"This book moves beyond sensationalism to consider how the evangelical movement has effectively targeted Americans—as both converts and consumers—since the 1970s. Thousands of products promoting the Christian faith are sold to millions of consumers each year through the Web, mail order catalogs,
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"Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere
American Ethnologist, volume 31, issue 1 (2004), pp. 92-110
"In this article I examine the elective affinity between Pentecostalism and the vibrant video-film industry that has flourished in the wake of Ghana’s adoption of a democratic constitution. I argue that, as a result of the liberalization and commercialization of the media, a new public sphere has
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Die Erotik des Bösen: Mami Water als "christlicher" Dämon in ghanaischen und nigerianischen Videos
In: Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult
Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), pp. 199-209
Igreja Universal: Um império midiático
In: Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: os novos conquistadores da fé
São Paulo: Paulinas (2003), pp. 259-280
Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: Os novos conquistadores da fé
São Paulo: Paulinas (2003), 379 pp.
Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision and Video Technology in Ghana
Mainz: Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2003), 22 pp.
"In this essay I have tried to show how, by taking as point of departure an understanding of religion as a practice of mediation, Pentecostalism has increasingly ‘taken place’, so to speak, in the public sphere as a result of Ghana’s turn to democracy and the liberalization and commercializati
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Altar Media's 'Living Word': Televised Charismatic Christianity in Ghana
Journal of Religion in Africa, volume 33, issue 2 (2003), pp. 172-202
"In many parts of Africa, charismatic-Pentecostal churches are increasingly and effectively making use of mass media and entering the public sphere. This article presents a case study of a popular charismatic church in Ghana and its media ministry. Building on the notion of charisma as intrinsically
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Making Global Faith Universal: Media and a Brazilian Prosperity Movement
Culture and Religion, volume 3, issue 1 (2002), pp. 21-28
"One characteristic of Brazilian neo-Pentecostal ministries that draw on the Faith Movement is an accentuation of performative and metonymic linkages between supernatural power and ritual. While sharing elements with a broader transnational Faith movement, this Prosperity theology and its associated
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Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Popular Cinema in Ghana
Culture and Religion, volume 3, issue 1 (2002), pp. 67-87
"As a result of the liberalisation and commercialisation of the media in the wake of Ghana's return to a democratic constitution in 1992, there has emerged a new public sphere which has been successfully and effectively colonised by Pentecostal-charismatic churches and led to the rise of a Pentecost
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Accra's Charismatic Screens
Etnofoor, volume 15, issue 2 (2002), pp. 222-228
"In this essay, I will look at and listen to a charismatic TV screen in Ghana, showing a sermon by the popular charismatic pastor Mensa Otabil in Accra. While watching the programme Living Word I will address the relation between charisma and screens and examine the place of screens in the construct
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Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological Hegemony: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and TV Globo in Brazil
Bulletin of Latin American Research, volume 18, issue 2 (1999), pp. 145-164
"Starting out from a celebrated 1995 controversy which arose from a late-nigt incident on Brazilian TV, the relationaships between neo-Pentcostalism and establishe culture are explored. Taking into account traditions of legal rhetoric and of political adherence, the paper shows that what appears at
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La industria de la salvación: Evangelismo y medios de comunicación en Bolivia
La Paz: CaraspaS Editores (1999), 167 pp.
Charismatic/Pentecostal Appropriation of Media Technologies in Nigeria and Ghana
Journal of Religion in Africa, volume 28, issue 3 (1998), pp. 258-277
"How do religious collectivities which are predicated on the Word generate images of themselves in the highly competitive religious marketplaces of many African urban spaces today?' Focusing on the burgeoning Christian charismatic and pentecostal movements of Ghana and Nigeria, I explore how and why
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