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Entre o palanque e o púlpito: Mídia, religião e política

Valdemar Figueredo Filho

São Paulo: Annablume (2005), 123 pp.

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Christianity and Television in Guatemala and Brazil: The Pentecostal Experience

Dennis A. Smith, Leonildo Silveira Campos

Studies in World Christianity, volume 11, issue 1 (2005), pp. 49-64

"This article will describe the impact of North American religious television in two very different Latin American contexts: Guatemala in Central America and Brazil in South America. From these common North American roots, Guatemala and Brazil provide contrasting case studies of how religious entrep ... more

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Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture

Heather Hendershot

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2004), 256 pp.

"This book moves beyond sensationalism to consider how the evangelical movement has effectively targeted Americans—as both converts and consumers—since the 1970s. Thousands of products promoting the Christian faith are sold to millions of consumers each year through the Web, mail order catalogs, ... more

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Die Erotik des Bösen: Mami Water als "christlicher" Dämon in ghaniaschen und nigerianischen Videos

Birgit Meyer

In: Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult

Tobias Wendl (ed.)

Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), pp. 199-209

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"Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer

American Ethnologist, volume 31, issue 1 (2004), pp. 92-110

"In this article I examine the elective affinity between Pentecostalism and the vibrant video-film industry that has flourished in the wake of Ghana’s adoption of a democratic constitution. I argue that, as a result of the liberalization and commercialization of the media, a new public sphere has ... more

Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: Os novos conquistadores da fé

Ari Pedro Oro, André Corten, Jean-Pierre Dozon (eds.)

São Paulo: Paulinas (2003), 379 pp.

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Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision and Video Technology in Ghana

Birgit Meyer

Mainz: Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2003), 22 pp.

"In this essay I have tried to show how, by taking as point of departure an understanding of religion as a practice of mediation, Pentecostalism has increasingly ‘taken place’, so to speak, in the public sphere as a result of Ghana’s turn to democracy and the liberalization and commercializati ... more

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Igreja Universal: Um império midiático

Alexandre Brasil Fonseca

In: Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: os novos conquistadores da fé

Ari Pedro Oro; André Corten; Jean-Pierre Dozon (eds.)

São Paulo: Paulinas (2003), pp. 259-280

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Altar Media's 'Living Word': Televised Charismatic Christianity in Ghana

Marleen de Witte

Journal of Religion in Africa, volume 33, issue 2 (2003), pp. 172-202

"In many parts of Africa, charismatic-Pentecostal churches are increasingly and effectively making use of mass media and entering the public sphere. This article presents a case study of a popular charismatic church in Ghana and its media ministry. Building on the notion of charisma as intrinsically ... more

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Accra's Charismatic Screens

Marleen de Witte

Etnofoor, volume 15, issue 2 (2002), pp. 222-228

"In this essay, I will look at and listen to a charismatic TV screen in Ghana, showing a sermon by the popular charismatic pastor Mensa Otabil in Accra. While watching the programme Living Word I will address the relation between charisma and screens and examine the place of screens in the construct ... more

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Making Global Faith Universal: Media and a Brazilian Prosperity Movement

Eric Kramer

Culture and Religion, volume 3, issue 1 (2002), pp. 21-28

"One characteristic of Brazilian neo-Pentecostal ministries that draw on the Faith Movement is an accentuation of performative and metonymic linkages between supernatural power and ritual. While sharing elements with a broader transnational Faith movement, this Prosperity theology and its associated ... more

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Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Popular Cinema in Ghana

Birgit Meyer

Culture and Religion, volume 3, issue 1 (2002), pp. 67-87

"As a result of the liberalisation and commercialisation of the media in the wake of Ghana's return to a democratic constitution in 1992, there has emerged a new public sphere which has been successfully and effectively colonised by Pentecostal-charismatic churches and led to the rise of a Pentecost ... more

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Teatro, templo y mercado: Comunicación y marketing de los nuevos pentecostales en América Latina

Leonildo Silveira Campos

Quito: Abya-Yala (2000), 427 pp.

Más allá de la teoría de la conspiración: Identidad de los evangélicos ecuatorianos y comunicación

Iván R. Balarezo Pérez

Quito: Abya-Yala (2000), 154 pp.

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Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological Hegemony: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and TV Globo in Brazil

Patricia Birman, David Lehmann

Bulletin of Latin American Research, volume 18, issue 2 (1999), pp. 145-164

"Starting out from a celebrated 1995 controversy which arose from a late-nigt incident on Brazilian TV, the relationaships between neo-Pentcostalism and establishe culture are explored. Taking into account traditions of legal rhetoric and of political adherence, the paper shows that what appears at ... more

La industria de la salvación: Evangelismo y medios de comunicación en Bolivia

Rafael Antonio Loayza Bueno

La Paz: CaraspaS Editores (1999), 167 pp.

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Charismatic/Pentecostal Appropriation of Media Technologies in Nigeria and Ghana

Rosalind I. J. Hackett

Journal of Religion in Africa, volume 28, issue 3 (1998), pp. 258-277

"How do religious collectivities which are predicated on the Word generate images of themselves in the highly competitive religious marketplaces of many African urban spaces today?' Focusing on the burgeoning Christian charismatic and pentecostal movements of Ghana and Nigeria, I explore how and why ... more