Global and Local Televangelism

Foreword; N.Echchaibi Global & Local Televangelism: An Introduction; P.N.Thomas & P.Lee PART I: ISLAMIC TELEVANGELISM: ON PRIESTS & PROPHETS Storytelling, Sincerity and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt; Y.Moll Islamic Televangelism in Changing Indonesia: Transmission, Authority, and The Politics of Ideas; A.Muzakki Islamic Televangelism: The Salafi Window to their Paradise; I.Saleh PART II: CHRISTIAN TELEVANGELISM: BRANDING THE GLOBAL & THE LOCAL Preaching the Good News Glad: Joel Osteen's Tel-e-vangelism; P.L.Sinitiere The global in the local: the ambivalence and ambition of Christian televangelism in India; J.D.James Hearing, Viewing and being Touched by the Spirit: Televangelism in Contemporary African Christianity; J.K.Asamoah-Gyadu PART III: HINDU TELEVANGELISM: AN EMERGING PHENOMENON The Avatars of Baba Ramdev: The Politics, Economics, and Contradictions of an Indian Televangelist; S.Chakravarti PART IV: TELEVANGELISM, POLITICS & POPULAR CULTURE From Televisuality to social activism: Nigerian televangelists and their Socio-Political Agenda; W.C.Ihejirika God's Politicians: Pentecostals, Media and Politics in Guatemala and Brazil; D.A.Smith & L.S.Campos Religiosity as Mediated Space: Mass Meditation in Contemporary Thailand; A.Feungfusakul Whither Televangelism: Opportunities, Trends, Challenges; P.N.Thomas Index