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	MediaMente: "The human mind and the new communication technologies"
		Televangelism has been a great success, but faith is a matter of human contact, which can be amplified and transported by television, but remains with the individual and not the medium (9).
		And my conclusion after studying how televangelism was working, what it was doing and how we change our sensibility towards religion and also towards other people - and it does perform a service - my conclusion was faith is not a matter of television; it's a matter of personal human contact.
		In a way he answered the question of televangelism because he is a natural televangelist; he's always on TV one way or the other, in one country or the other, and that has helped a great deal.
	www.mediamente.rai.it /mediamentetv/learning/ed_multimediale/english/bibliote/intervis/d/dekerckh.htm (2630 words)

	Televangelism St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		In this context, the term "televangelism" became widely adopted to describe the use of broadcasting to promote not only evangelical Christian beliefs, but also a wide range of social and political views espoused by Christian fundamentalists.
		The roots of contemporary televangelism can be traced to the 1950s, when evangelists such as Billy Graham,; Rex Humbard, and Oral Roberts started to use television programs to spread their conservative Protestant beliefs.
		Towards the end of the 1980s,; however, televangelism went into a period of decline, primarily as a result of separate financial and sexual scandals involving Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart,; two leading religious broadcasters.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101207?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (762 words)

	Corruption of the Protestant Religion
		Televangelism is a popular culture version of the Protestant religion.
		Televangelism has transformed into a business were preachers work towards better rating and more donations.
		Televangelism has taken a united and traditional faith and transformed it into a materialistic, corrupt, and corporate religion that has tarnished the Protestant religion.
	www.cs.mun.ca /~rkrista/location5.html (1357 words)

	Biography-Tammy Faye and televanglism - Associated Content
		Although the general American public is usually most suspicious of this aspect of televangelism, followers saw giving as their duty.
		Televangelism was promoting a theology that corresponded to the attitudes of consumerist America.
		"In the case of televangelism, the wealth of the pastor is not only defended as necessary to the proper fulfillment of his functions but as proper acknowledgement of the pastor's position as the representative of God" (Bruce 76).
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/471/tammy_faye.html?page=4 (798 words)

	KtB - The Son Also Rises
		Jim and Tammy's kid mixes punk rock and televangelism to bring Christianity to the tattooed, the pierced, and the otherwise unseemly.
		Initially, televangelism was a fledgling enterprise, limited to a few broadcast channels.
		But with the growth of cable television and other changes in FCC law, the airwaves opened to the electronic pulpit, and by one Nielsen estimate, 13 million viewers were tuning into televangelists' programming at least once a week.
	www.killingthebuddha.com /critical_devotion/son_also_rises.htm (1098 words)

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		Televangelism, riding on the backs of religious movements, persuasion theory, and critical theory, caught the attention of the national media, and social science once again turned its attention to the role of religion in the media.
		For the purposes of this study, televangelism is defined as "the exclusive use of television or cable television for the transmission of the gospel by a television evangelist" (Schmidt and Kess, 1986, p.
		A second forerunner of televangelism was Reverend Billy Graham, whose Hour of Decision began on radio but later switched to television.
	faculty.leeu.edu /~mlaney/page_2.html (1842 words)

	Televangelism Summary
		The roots of contemporary televangelism can be traced to the 1950s, when evangelists such as Billy Graham, Rex Humbard, and Oral Roberts started to use television programs to spread their conservative Protestant beliefs.
		Towards the end of the 1980s, however, televangelism went into a period of decline, primarily as a result of separate financial and sexual scandals involving Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, two leading religious broadcasters.
		Televangelism is a popular subject for parody and satire in popular culture.
	www.bookrags.com /Televangelist (1427 words)

	Religion on Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From the mid-1970s until a series of scandals struck three prominent programs ten years later, televangelism was a force on television and in the world of religion.
		Early on, this new religious broadcasting was feared to have negative consequences for conventional religion by drawing members and financial support away from churches.
		The conventional churches and church organizations saw their air time gradually erode as "paid time" televangelism rose to prominence.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/religionont/religionont.htm (1272 words)

	Streetgangs.com :: View topic - Televangelism
		Televangelism is used by various religions around the world.
		In regards to Islam religion, they are for the most all beleivers that comply with the regular rites like prayer and charity but that is all, not no hardcore militant religious attitute, they are practicing Muslims in their country, just like per say practicing Catholics are in Mexico.
		All fail to grasp the message and take the teachings out of their perspective eras and purposes for which they were written.
	www.streetgangs.com /billboard/viewtopic.php?t=5074 (3389 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Televangelism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Televangelism" at HighBeam.
		Once a housewife, Joyce Meyer rose to riches through televangelism.
		THE ABUSES OF TELEVANGELISM: Man on a mission to root out false prophets
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Televangelism (150 words)

	PTL Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Based first in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then in Fort Mill, South Carolina, the PTL Club was one of the most successful ventures in televangelism for much of the 1970s and 1980s.
		His wife divorced him and married one of his associates.
		Parts of Heritage USA endure, but by the 1990s it had ceased to be a monument to televangelism and evangelical popular culture.
	www.scencyclopedia.com /ptlclub.htm (280 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Can Muslim televangelism win hearts of Moroccans? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This admittedly original approach to televangelism is meant to counterbalance the influence of hard-line imams and preachers, satellite stations from the Persian Gulf region and Middle Eastern DVDs that spread radical Islam.
		In case you were wondering how worldly authorities can interfere in what is preached in a house of worship, it is important to understand that the notion of secularism in Morocco is limited to the minds of no more than a handful of intellectuals.
		The problem is that his authority as commander of the faithful is being challenged, especially by Islamists.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,640196625,00.html (615 words)

	Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science
		Televangelism also is referred to as "the electric church" by religious broadcasters, especially Ben Armstrong (The Electric Church, Nelson 1979), or "the electronic church" by mainline Christian critics.
		Televangelism is a hybrid institution derived from urban revivalism and television (see Frankl 1984, 1987).
		According to Poloma (1989), the beginning of the fall of the televangelism stars in the Assemblies of God (all of the above-mentioned ministers belong to the denomination) came in 1986 when it was revealed by Swaggart that Marvin Gorman had been having extramarital affairs.
	www.hartfordinstitute.org /ency/Televangelism.htm (4257 words)

	Televangelism \| Televangelist \| Televangelists \| Television Evangelism \| Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture (Chap.
		What is the evidence for paranormal phenomena that demonstrate divine power, and what alternative explanations can be offered for such apparently...
		Click here for more books and articles on televangelism
	www.questia.com /library/religion/televangelism.jsp (673 words)

	History Channel Classroom:
		But Reagan's homespun ways could not forestall the economic crises of the 1980s and the widening economic divide between the haves and the have-nots.
		This episode examines some of the major events of the 1980s including the recession, aids, Wall Street, MTV, terrorism, televangelism and the fall of communism.
		Television and religion blended together in the 1980s with the rise of televangelism.
	www.history.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0060.html (350 words)

	SoMA Review - In Defense of Ole - John D. Spalding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But that night’s guest was Ole Anthony, the founder and president of the Trinity Foundation, a nonprofit religious community in East Dallas that’s dedicated to helping the needy—the homeless and the poor, the sick and the elderly, the addicted and the abused.
		It was surreal: Anthony, the only guest willing to question televangelism, was forced to defend himself for finding fault in those who sell God.
		Some of the panelists’ comments and objections were so dopey that I would have tossed a shoe at the screen if I hadn’t been paralyzed with disbelief.
	www.somareview.com /oleanthony.cfm (1580 words)

	UPCI Men's Ministry Forum - Internet streaming preaching: Right or wrong?
		Placing materials on the internet is better compared to putting video or audio archived sermons in a world wide electronic library.
		Televangelism is a massive enterprise and can be very expensive and takes constant participation.
		I would hope the object of that ban would be to avoid cheapening the experience of Pentecost, in a Jim and Tammy Faye Baker sort of way.
	www.upci.org /am/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2188 (1868 words)

	Televangelist Report Card - Christianity Today magazine - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		Predictions that the scandals in the late 1980s involving Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart would be the death knell for television ministries have proven wrong.
		Though the number of viewers and contributions have dropped by almost three-fourths compared to televangelism's peak in the early '80s, dozens of TV ministries from that decade remain on the air today.
		To get a handle on the current state of televangelism, I monitored 150 broadcasts of 22 different television ministries from September to November of 2000.
	www.ctlibrary.com /ct/2001/october22/10.88.html (331 words)

	Recent Reference Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One book that was found to be especially helpful for this project was "Televangelism and American Culture: The Business of Popular Religion" (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991).
		The author is Quentin Schultze, who teaches at Calvin College and it turns out that Schultze has written extensively on this subject.
		Televangelism and American Culture: The Business of Popular Religion (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991).
	www.erskine.edu /library/rrqsearch.htm?igor=67 (289 words)

	Freezerbox Magazine - "THIS IS YOUR DAY!" with Benny Hinn and Friends
		Before we look at the show, "THIS IS YOUR DAY with Benny Hinn," we need to assess who watches religious television.
		Televangelism does not convert the non-believer to Christ; it serves as an alternative to previously practiced church behavior, or as a supplement to traditional church behavior.
		Most viewers of religious programming not only go to church regularly, but also engage in a wide variety of non-church religious activities.
	www.freezerbox.com /archive/article.php?id=7 (3466 words)

	Yearbook of Experts - Online
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	www.expertclick.com /search/default.cfm?SearchCriteria=Televangelism (121 words)

	The 20th Century with Mike Wallace: The Televangelists \| MTV MOVIES
		This documentary, part of the 20th Century With Mike Wallace series from CBS News and the History Channel, goes behind-the-scenes inside the world of televangelists.
		Narrated by series host and CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace, this episode looks at the origins of televangelism, from the early days of religious evangelists speaking on radio and television, to more contemporary times.
		In recent years, televangelists have been marked with scandals that made people question the dedication of their service to religion and God.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/198345/moviemain.jhtml (322 words)

	Eat Healthy. Live Happy. - Televangelism Reconsidered: Ritual in the Search for Human Community (Aar Studies in ...
		Televangelism Reconsidered: Ritual in the Search for Human Community (Aar Studies in Religion)
		By closely examining four television programs--Falwell's "The Old-Time Gospel Hour," Robertson's "700 Club," the Bakkers' "PTL Club," and the telecasts of Jimmy Swaggart--this work considers the attraction of televangelism for its conservative Christian audience.
		It argues that televangelism, as ritual performance, both legitimates the beliefs of viewers and at the same time adapts other beliefs of its viewers to the broader culture.
	www.valuerecipes.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/1555409075 (132 words)

	Hoofdartikel Benny Hinn-His move into necromancy
		The world of televangelism appears almost the same.
		As repeatedly documented in PFO’s The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, the Orlando-based faith healer has spawned many a new vision, a new testimony, a new claim, a new gimmick, a new cure-all, and a new twist on an old "deliverance" scheme over the past several years.
		In the mid-1990s, Hinn sought donations from those attending his crusades and from the viewers of his daily telecasts to go head-to-head on cable and television networks featuring psychic hot lines.
	www.deceptioninthechurch.com /Hinn1.htm (4764 words)

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