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Give the Winds a Mighty Voice: Evangelical Culture as Radio Ecology
The Evangelical movement in the United States arose as an interpretive community in the late 19th century when the penny press permitted mass dissemination of shared media texts. Network radio in the early and mid-20th century then furnished an ecology for Evangelicals to share real-time media rituals and be socially integrated into a broadly coherent ...
Mark Ward
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Evangelical radio and the rise of the electronic church, 1921–1948
Evangelicals in the U.S. used radio extensively between the wars to preach their old‐fashioned gospel and to enhance their social status in the expanding industrial nation. They were among the earliest station owners and operators and, despite restrictive network and regulatory policies, built audiences through creative and entertaining programming ...
Quentin J. Schultze
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This article refutes dominant views that define evangelical indigenous media as intrinsic tools for religious indoctrination. The case of the Colombian Misak community shows that evangelical radio stations can contribute to community building. However, the degree of the positive or negative contribution of evangelical media depends on the dominance of ...
Diego Cortes
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7 Fishers of Men: Maritime Radio and Evangelical Hymnody in the Scottish Fishing Industry, 1950–65
Frances Wilkins
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The message that Grace Fuller had awaited for years arrived at her cabin in the San Bernardino mountains. Here, she sought relief from the Southern California heat that aggravated her tuberculosis, for which there was no easy treatment in 1916. Her husband, Charles, had gone to church alone in Los Angeles to hear Paul Rader, the boxer-turned-evangelist.
Philip Goff
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Global Radio Broadcasting and the Dynamics of American Evangelicalism
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, American evangelicals broadened their global outlook and operations, becoming the largest private radio broadcasters in the world. As they expanded overseas after World War II, American evangelicals encountered a world in crisis due to the Cold War, population growth, and processes of decolonization ...
Timothy H. B. Stoneman
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An "African" Gospel: American Evangelical Radio in West Africa, 1954-1970
During the second half of the twentieth century, Christianity underwent an epochal transformation from a predominantly Western religion to a world religion largely defined by non-Western adherents in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Broadcast media, spearheaded by American evangelical missionaries, played an important role in the globalization of ...
Timothy H. B. Stoneman
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