Global and Local Televangelism

1. Global and Local Televangelism: An Introduction

1. Global and Local Televangelism: An Introduction
Pradip N. Thomas, Philip Lee

Part I. Islamic Televangelism: On Preachers and Prophets

2. Storytelling, Sincerity, and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt
Yasmin Moll

3. Islamic Televangelism in Changing Indonesia: Transmission, Authority, and the Politics of Ideas
Akh Muzakki

4. Islamic Televangelism: The Salafi Window to Their Paradise
Ibrahim Saleh

Part II. Christian Televangelism: Branding the Global and the Local

5. Preaching the Good News Glad: Joel Osteen’s Tel-e-vangelism
Phillip Luke Sinitiere

6. The Global in the Local: The Ambivalence and Ambition of Christian Televangelism in India
Jonathan D. James

7. Hearing, Viewing, and Touched by the Spirit: Televangelism in Contemporary African Christianity
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Part III. Hindu Televangelism: An Emerging Phenomenon

8. The Avatars of Baba Ramdev: The Politics, Economics, and Contradictions of an Indian Televangelist
Santanu Chakrabarti

Part IV. Televangelism, Politics, and Popular Culture

9. From Televisuality to Social Activism: Nigerian Televangelists and Their Socio-Political Agenda
Walter C. Ihejirika

10. God’s Politicians: Pentecostals, Media, and Politics in Guatemala and Brazil
Dennis A. Smith, Leonildo Silveira Campos

11. Urban Logic and Mass Meditation in Contemporary Thailand
Apinya Feungfusakul

12. Whither Televangelism: Opportunities, Trends, Challenges
Pradip Ninan Thomas

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Media Studies, Sociology of Religion, Social Aspects of Religion, Communication Studies, Media Research