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Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2025), xxx, 337 pp.
"Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categori
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Christian Media
In: Christianity in North Africa and West Asia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), pp. 417-426
"Christian media in a highly fragile region are faced with a number of challenges: the issues of security, trust and persecution have prevented them from develping more inclusive strategies, strengthening their relationship with their audience or conducting qualitative or quantitative audience resea
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Religious Television Channels in Tamil Nadu: An Analysis of Tamil Christian Programmes
Salem: Periyar University, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Doctoral Thesis (2017), 238 pp.
"In a nutshell, this research reveals that indigenous Tamil Christian satellite television channels [i.e., Angel TV, Aaseervatham TV, Madha TV, Power of God TV, Salvation TV] are liked by the Christian viewers. The viewers watch those channels for the gratifications of moral, psychological, and reli
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Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media
New York: Routledge (2017), 264 pp.
"Creating Church Online constructs a rich ethnographic account of the diverse cultures of online churches, from virtual worlds to video streams. This book also outlines the history of online churchgoing, from its origins in the 1980s to the present day, and traces the major themes of academic and Ch
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"This case study investigates SAT-7 – a Christian independent satellite-TV network – in its context – the Middle East and North Africa – with a majority of Islamic inhabitants and traditions. It examines and describes what the actual implemented strategy is in order to do the daily work of S
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Religious TV
In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 162-169
"Religious channels in the MENA region are approximately 10 percent of all free-to-air (FTA) channels from 2012 to 2014. This is a relatively high share compared to many markets outside the region, such as the U.K., where religious channels only represent one percent of FTA channels. Religious chann
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"The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the work of Christian media, mainly the satellite television channels, in the Middle East. The reason for focussing only on the satellite channels is because the television channels are still the main players and have attracted more attention, esp
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Orthodoxes Fernsehen in Russland
Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, issue 10 (2015), pp. 11-13
"Seit August 2015 ist der Fernsehsender Spas des Moskauer Patriarchats in fast allen Haushalten Russlands zu empfangen. Seine bewegte Vorgeschichte, Gerüchte über Verbindungen zu US-amerikanischen konservativen Kreisen sowie ein neues Nachrichtenprogramm legen enge Verbindungen mit dem "orthodoxen
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Kompendium Christliche Publizistik
Erlangen: Christliche Publizistik Verlag (CPV) (2014), 324 pp.
Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
New York: Columbia University Press (2012), xvi, 348 pp.
Christian Broadcasting: A Critical Assessment
In: Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
New York: Columbia University Press (2012), pp. 195-217
Global and Local Televangelism
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
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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Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xix, 267 pp.
"This book is a critical study of the political economy of communications in India. It explores the ways in which contexts, policies, and processes at national and international levels shape media structures and studies how a political economy-inspired approach can be used to understand both media d
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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East: Islamic, Christian and Jewish Channels. Programmes and Discourses
Deep Insights
"Since the mid-1990s, the influence of satellite television broadcasting in the Middle East has become central to the shaping of public attitudes in the region and beyond. While many of the main influential mainstream satellite channels are news-focused, entertainment and religious broadcasting are
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Médias et religions en Afrique de l'Ouest
Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2009), 173 pp.
‘We Need to Open Up the Country’: Development and the Christian Key Scenario in the Social Space of Kinshasa’s Teleserials
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 1 (2009), pp. 101-116
"This article discusses discourses on development in the social space of Kinshasa’s post-Mobutu teleserials. The producers (dramatic artists and born-again Christian leaders; some are both) contend that their work will transform society, counter the social and political crisis and improve the nati
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Mission et communication
Perspectives Missionnaires, issue 57 (2009), pp. 1-63
Show da fé e de sentido(s): O universo eclesial como mediaçao sociocultural
Bauru: Universidade Estadual Paulista, Master Thesis (2009), 272 pp.
"Às vésperas de completar 100 anos em 2010, o pentecostalismo no Brasil se mostra como um fenômeno complexo, multifacetado, desafiando comunicadores, empresários da mídia, sociólogos, pastores, crentes, ateus e também pesquisadores da comunicação social, já que na contemporaneidade as expe
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Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication
Downers Grove, Illin.: IVP Academic (2008), 347 pp.
