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2012

Thomas, Pradip Ninan ; Lee, Philip, eds.
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Global and local televangelism $c / edited by Pradip Ninan Thomas and Philip Lee.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

xiv, 250 p. : tables ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Global and local televangelism: an introduction / Pradip Ninan Thomas and Philip Lee. --Part I: Islamic televangelism: on preachers and prophets. Storytelling, sincerity, and Islamic televangelism in Egypt / Yasmin Moll. -- Islamic televangelism in changing Indonesia: transmission, authority, and the politics of ideas / Akh Muzakki. -- Islamic televangelism: the Salafi window to their paradise / Ibrahim Saleh. -- Part II: Christian televangelism: Branding the global and the local. Preaching the good news glad: Joel Osteen's tel-e-vangelism / Phillip Luke Sinitiere. -- 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. -- Part III: Hindu televangelism: an emerging phenomenon. The avatars of Baba Ramdev: the politics, economics, and contradictions of an Indian televangelist / Santanu Chakrabarti. -- Part IV: Televangelism, politics, and popular culture. From televisuality to social activism: Nigerian televangelists and their socio-political agenda / Walter C. Ihejirika. -- God's politicians: Pentecostals, media, and politics in Guatemala and Brazil / Dennis A. Smith and Leonildo Silveira Campos. -- Urban logic and mass meditation in contemporary Thailand / Apinya Feungfusakul. -- Whither televangelism: opportunities, trends, challenges / Pradip Ninan Thomas.

Television in religion.
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