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Global and Local Televangelism

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.

Contains index

ISBN 978-0-230-34810-3

Signature commbox: 40-Religion-E 2012

1 Global and Local Televangelism: An Introduction / Pradip N. Thomas and Philip Lee
I. ISLAMIC TELEVANGELISM: ON PREACHERS AND PROPHETS
2 Storytelling, Sincerity, and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt / Yasmin Moll
3 Islamic Televangelism in Changing Indonesia: Transmission, Authority, and the Politics of Ideas / Akh Muzakki
4 Islamic Televangelism: The Salafi Window to Their Paradise / Ibrahim Saleh
II. CHRISTIAN TELEVANGELISM: BRANDING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
5 Preaching the Good News Glad: Joel Osteen's Tel-e-vangelism / Phillip Luke Sinitiere
6 The Global in the Local: The Ambivalence and Ambition of Christian Televangelism in India / Jonathan D. James
Hearing, Viewing, and Touched by the Spirit: Televangelism in Contemporary African Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
III. HINDU TELEVANGELISM: AN EMERGING PHENOMENON
8 The Avatars of Baba Ramdev: The Politics, Economics, and Contradictions of an Indian Televangelist / Santanu Chakrabarti
IV. TELEVANGELISM, POLITICS, AND POPULAR CULTURE
9 From Televisuality to Social Activism: Nigerian Televangelists and Their Socio-Political Agenda / Walter C Ihejinka
10 God's Politicians: Pentecostals, Media, and Politics in Guatemala and Brazil / Dennis A. Smith and Leonildo Silveira Campos
11 Urban Logic and Mass Meditation in Contemporary Thailand / Apinya Feungfusakul
12 Whither Televangelism: Opportunities, Trends, Challenges / Pradip Nina Thomas