Religious Television: Controversies and ConclusionsRobert Abelman, Stewart M. Hoover This volume addresses the various and highly topical controversies surrounding religious television by examining its history, structure, content, viewship, and social impact. It represents a compilation of original essays written by the world's leading scholars, regulators, authorities, and watchdogs of religious television. Each controversy is addressed from a wide range of perspectives. The result is a most interesting exchange of ideas and ideologies: the presentation of empirical data, theology and learned opinion, and an assortment of insightful conclusions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
2 | 18 |
Defining the Electronic Church | 41 |
4 | 57 |
The Public Trust versus the Almighty Dollar | 71 |
The Viewers of Religious Programming | 85 |
Whos Watching For What Reasons? | 99 |
How Religious Is Religious Television? | 131 |
The Lack of Division Between Electronic | 193 |
19 | 227 |
The Portrayal of Religion on Secular | 237 |
21 | 249 |
Television Religion and Fundamentalist Distortions | 265 |
23 | 275 |
The Portrayal of Family on Religious | 281 |
25 | 287 |
11 | 147 |
Paul Kurtz International Humanist | 153 |
13 | 159 |
14 | 165 |
The Selling of Salvation in the Electronic Church | 173 |
Arthur C Borden Evangelical Council for Financial | 185 |
The Religious Television Family Portrait | 295 |
Issues in International Religious | 311 |
List of Contributors | 353 |
Subject Index | 362 |
Copyright | |
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Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions Robert Abelman,Stewart M. Hoover No preview available - 1990 |
Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions Robert Abelman,Stewart M. Hoover No preview available - 1990 |