Here's a nice summary of (esp. early) literature on televangelism: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Televangelism.htm The term was coined by Jeff Hadden. Here's a list of his works, many of which will be of interest to you, and a number of which are offered in (reformatted) full text: http://religiousbroadcasting.lib.virginia.edu/pubs/ Asides: Hadden, who was on my Master's thesis committee, has been labelled a "cult apologist" for focusing his final 15 years (before passing in January 2003) charaterizing new religious movements (esp. Scientology and the Unification Church) without value-laden critique. Despite his employment of pscychological ideas in lectures (he often castigated me publicly for adhering to Pure Sociology), he was a steadfastly scientific, and deserves being remembered for that. And his earlier work, on church organization and mass media, is similarly remarkable. -eg
-----Original Message----- From: Charles Ess Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:40 AM
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I'm doing some work on religion online, and am keen on finding both resources and resource persons in the area of fundamentalism as communicated through mass media.