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Christianity and Television in Guatemala and Brazil: The Pentecostal Experience

Dennis A. Smith, Leonildo Silveira Campos

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 ... more

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Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies

Birgit Meyer

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 ... more

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Religião e mercado: A mídia empresarial-religiosa

Luther King de Andrade Santana

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 ... more

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Entre o palanque e o púlpito: Mídia, religião e política

Valdemar Figueredo Filho

São Paulo: Annablume (2005), 123 pp.

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[Religious Film]

Stephen Hughes, Birgit Meyer (eds.)

Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-374

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Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture

Heather Hendershot

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, ... more

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Religiosidade midiática: Uma nova agenda pública na construção de sentidos?

Attílio Hartmann

São Leopoldo: Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (IHU), Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2004), 23 pp.

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Die Erotik des Bösen: Mami Water als "christlicher" Dämon in ghanaischen und nigerianischen Videos

Birgit Meyer

In: Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult

Tobias Wendl (ed.)

Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), pp. 199-209

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"Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer

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 ... more

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Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision and Video Technology in Ghana

Birgit Meyer

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 ... more

Altar Media's 'Living Word': Televised Charismatic Christianity in Ghana

Marleen de Witte

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 ... more

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Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making

S. Brent Plate (ed.)

New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2003), vi, 272 pp.

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Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Popular Cinema in Ghana

Birgit Meyer

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 ... more

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Accra's Charismatic Screens

Marleen de Witte

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 ... more

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Más allá de la teoría de la conspiración: Identidad de los evangélicos ecuatorianos y comunicación

Iván R. Balarezo Pérez

Quito: Abya-Yala (2000), 154 pp.

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Teatro, templo y mercado: Comunicación y marketing de los nuevos pentecostales en América Latina

Leonildo Silveira Campos

Quito: Abya-Yala (2000), 427 pp.

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La industria de la salvación: Evangelismo y medios de comunicación en Bolivia

Rafael Antonio Loayza Bueno

La Paz: CaraspaS Editores (1999), 167 pp.