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Author Frederick, Marla Faye, 1972- author

Title Colored television : American religion gone global / Marla F. Frederick
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource
Series RaceReligion
RaceReligion
Contents "Jamaica, land we love" -- Religious dandyism : prosperity and performance in Black televangelism -- Relative prosperity : lived religion in the "dying field" -- Female televangelists and the gospel of sexual redemption -- Redeeming sexuality -- Distributing the message : globalization and the spread of Black televangelism -- Conclusion : voices of the next generation
Summary 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 the Caribbean, it also explores why the genre has resonated so powerfully around the world. Investigating the roles of producers, consumers, and distributors, Marla Frederick takes a unique look at the ministries, the communities they enter, and the global markets of competition that buffer them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Television in religion -- United States
African American evangelists -- United States
Women evangelists -- United States.
Television broadcasting, American.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Spiritual Growth.
African American evangelists
Religion
Television broadcasting, American
Television in religion
Women evangelists
SUBJECT United States -- Religion -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140504
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804797009
0804797005