Pray T. V. by Steve Bruce
What is the significance of televangelism in America? How is it organized and financed? Who watches it? These are some of the key questions raised and answered in this book. The author offers a measured analysis of all aspects of televangelism. Included here are discussions of how televangelism fits in with the history of American Protestantism; the styles of leading TV preachers and the televangelical star system; and the relation of televangelism to conservatism and politics. Bruce also provides an assessment of the wave of scandals involving televangelical stars which swept over religious television broadcasting in the 1980s. The book will be of interest to students of the media, religion, communications and contemporary American life.Steve Bruce, Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen Steve Bruce is an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. He taught at The Queen's University, Belfast, from 1978 to 1991 and since 2001 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2005 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Steve Bruce is the author of a number of books, including Secular Beats Spiritual (OUP, 2017), Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On (OUP 2016), and Scottish Gods: Religion in Modern Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415030984 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415030986 |
| Title | Pray T. V. |
| Author | Steve Bruce |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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