Colored Television
eBook - ePub

Colored Television

American Religion Gone Global

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Colored Television

American Religion Gone Global

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: Why Colored Television?
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. “Jamaica, Land We Love”
  11. 2. Religious Dandyism: Prosperity and Performance in Black Televangelism
  12. 3. Relative Prosperity: Lived Religion in the “Dying Field”
  13. 4. Female Televangelists and the Gospel of Sexual Redemption
  14. 5. Redeeming Sexuality
  15. 6. Distributing the Message: Globalization and the Spread of Black Televangelism
  16. Conclusion: Voices of the next Generation
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Series List