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Political economy of televangelism:
Communicare, 2022 Mass media practices are generally of a "top down' nature. Messages manufactured by media institutions favour dominant perspectives. They are transmitted unilinearly and largely exclude the voices of ordinary people, the poor and the socially ...
Keyan G Tomaselli
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Pentecostal spirituality in the context of faith and hope gospel (prosperity preaching): African Pentecostal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Dialog, 2022 Abstract Covid‐19 has challenged humanity in several ways and has created the opportunity for reflection on our spirituality and the hope for divine healing of the world, while scientific communities do their best to find solutions to the pandemic from their perspective.
White P.
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Televangelism: A study of the ‘Pentecost Hour’ of the Church of Pentecost
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 The liberalisation of the Ghanaian media since the 1990s has drastically changed the media landscape of Ghana and given rise to the use of the mass media for evangelism purposes.
Peter White, Abraham Anim Assimeng
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Islamic Televangelism: Controversy and Da'wah Contest in Television Media
Jurnal Dakwah Risalah, 2023 Digital technology has had a significant impact on several aspects of human life, especially on religious aspects. The birth of this religious fragmentation encouraged the presence of new religious, contemporary preachers and new audiences who contribute
Titi Antin, Siti Mupida
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The Others: Finding and Counting America's Invisible Churches
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 901-912, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The 2010 U. S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations and Membership Survey (RCMS) is the most comprehensive picture of U.S. religious life, county by county. How thorough is the RCMS in covering local religious groups? To answer this question, three county snapshots were performed with collected data compared to the RCMS 2010 reported ...
J. Gordon Melton +2 more
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“Ye Double‐Minded”: Black Parishioners’ Attitudes toward Nonaffirming Church Climates
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 108-125, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Homophobia in the black community has been largely attributed to the Black Church's conservative views concerning sexual orientation. Prior research demonstrates that black congregations are generally nonaffirming of nonheterosexuality; however, few studies have investigated black congregants’ responses to their churches’ climates regarding ...
Luther Young Jr.
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Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This survey paper interrogates four theoretical frameworks often invoked to analyze intersections between media and religion: mediatization, mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology. The paper surveys several research works informed by the aforementioned theories that study Pentecostals ...
Murtala Ibrahim
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Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 44, Issue 8, Page 1324-1343, September 2022., 2022 Abstract The medicalisation of marijuana has occurred rapidly, albeit nonuniformly, across the US and around the world over the past 3 decades. This paper centres on the medicalisation of marijuana in Minnesota—which has one of the most restrictive programs in the country—as a case for evaluating the negotiation of institutional boundaries with the ...
Ryan T. Steel
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How to manifest abundance: money and the rematerialization of exchange in Sedona, Arizona, USA
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 920-937, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Manifestation is a spiritual practice with material gains. It is a way for those involved with spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, to make money as required while maintaining a level of consonance between their economic life and spiritual path.
Susannah Crockford
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Racism towards the Chinese Minority in Malaysia: Political Islam and Institutional Barriers
The Political Quarterly, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 451-459, July/September 2022., 2022 Abstract Politics in Malaysia revolves around the tensions between the three major ethnic groups: Malays, Chinese and Indians. After the 1969 ethnic riots, the country adopted an affirmative action programme widely regarded as racist towards the non‐Malays. The rise of political Islam in recent times has added a religious layer to institutional racism.
James Chin
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