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Colored Television

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Description for Colored Television paperback. Exploring the tremendous influence of women and African American televangelists, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global offers a unique examination of the phenomenal growth of American religious broadcasting beyond the U.S., particularly in the Caribbean. Series: Racereligion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HR; JFD; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.

The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramatically changed the face of American religious broadcasting in recent decades. Colored Television looks at the influence of these ministries beyond the United States, where complex gospels of prosperity and gospels of sexual redemption mutually inform one another while offering hopeful yet socially contested narratives of personal uplift. As an ethnography, Colored Television illuminates the phenomenal international success of American TV preachers like T.D. Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer, and Juanita Bynum. Focusing particularly on Jamaica and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Racereligion
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804796989
SKU
V9780804796989
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Marla Frederick
Marla F. Frederick is Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion at Harvard University.

Reviews for Colored Television
"Frederick has identified an important topic in the global flows of black religion through the work of influential television broadcasters. Her book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of religion in the African diaspora, religion and the American media, and Pentecostalism."
Judith Weisenfeld
Princeton University
"No other work in black religious studies so well documents the ... Read more

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