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Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry, 2021
In looking at Homer Rodeheaver’s life, work, and legacy, the authors offer new context for his contributions to gospel music. He borrowed from evangelical hymns, African American spirituals, and popular music to build a publishing empire in Chicago ...
Kevin Mungons, Douglas Yeo
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Racketeering in religion: Adorno and evangelical support for Donald Trump

Critical Research on Religion, 2018
In the 2016 American presidential election, 81% of White evangelicals voted for Donald Trump despite the obvious fact that he had little knowledge or interest in Christianity.
Christopher Brittain
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Commercial Gospel Music

Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry, 2021
Homer Rodeheaver came of age at a pivotal moment in the creation and marketing of American popular music, and in a city—Chicago—that was central to its success.
Kevin Mungons, Douglas Yeo
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“Truth Is the Keenest Weapon Ever Drawn”

, 2021
In the 1920s and early 1930s, Robert P. Shuler, head of Trinity Methodist Church, rose to fame in Los Angeles as a tireless evangelical muckraker. Shuler, via Bob Shuler’s Magazine and his popular radio station KGEF, charged that many powerful Angelenos ...
Maxwell E. Johnson
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New Technology to Promote an Old Story

Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry, 2021
As the popularity of tabernacle revivalism declined, Homer Rodeheaver embraced new technologies to advance his ideas about the power of gospel music and community singing.
Kevin Mungons, Douglas Yeo
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An Approach to Seventh-day Adventist Radio Evangelism in Ghana

2023
Since Ghana gained independence from colonial rule, religious broadcasting has undergone self- and governmental censorship. Post-independence governments have either clamped down on the activities of church organizations by disagreeing with them or have intimidated them in numerous ways to tone down some aspects of their activities that the government ...
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Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry

, 2021
Homer Rodeheaver rose to national prominence in the early 20th century as the trombone-playing songleader for Billy Sunday. For twenty years they captured attention with city-wide revival meetings, a mix of sincere devotion, popular religion, and modern ...
Kevin Mungons, Douglas Yeo
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Turn Your Radio On: Liberal Theology in a Southern Register, 1953–1963

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
In the mid-twentieth century, a contest played out between evangelicals and mainline Protestant denominations over which organizations would have access to the radio airwaves and whose message, including whose theology, would receive the widest hearing ...
H. A. Warren
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The Rise and Entrenchment of the Antitax Movement: A Review Article

Political science quarterly
Despite the vast and growing literature on U.S. conservatism, one aspect of the rise of American conservatism appears to have garnered less attention: the antitax movement that has been at the center of the Rightward pivot in U.S.
Ajay K. Mehrotra
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A Methodological Review of Mike Bamiloye’s Concept of Christian Drama

African Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
Mike Bamiloye's definition of Christian drama as a "dramatic illustration of Christian messages on stage, films, radio, television, and in print for the purposes of regeneration, revival, restoration, enlightenment, and motivation" offers a contemporary ...
J. Profit
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