Prime-Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting

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This encyclopaedia contains 350 entries which detail the origins of religious broadcasting, pioneer preachers, the most successful programmes, and the many personalities who have laboured in this electronic realm. Coverage spans from 1921 through today and includes both mainline Christian broadcasters, such as Billy Graham and Pat Robertson, and non-Christian personalities like Black Muslim leader Warith Dean Muhammad, and Rosicrucian H. Spencer Lewis. The encyclopaedia also covers the important contributions of a number of women broadcasters including Beverly La Haye, Marilyn Hickey and Evelyn Wyatt. Each entry includes background information about the broadcaster's life and their entry into the world of broadcasting. The authors present unbiased accounts of even the industry's most controversial broadcasters including Jim and Tammy Faye Baker and Jerry Falwell. The evolution of prominent radio and television programmes and religious organisations is also included. An introduction by J. Gordon Melton provides an overview of the development of religious broadcasting, from its roots to the billion dollar industry it is today.

Reviews

.,."a useful source for information on religious broadcasters and programs."-Communication Booknotes Quarterly
.,."a well-researched, well-written, and interesting work, recommended for academic and public libraries."-Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
.,."future researshers will find this assemblage of organizational profiles, biographies, and bibliographies an invaluable resource."-Booklist/ Reference Books Bulletin
.,."this compendium, the first encyclopedia treatment of the epic, is one that serious scholars as well as curious readers will appreciate.... Prime-Time Religion helps to track the continuing cultural and political effects that faith-based belief systems have on the American social fabric....In addition to its research potential, this guide-book, together with local television or radio listings, will help earnest faith-seekers find desired programs."-ARBA
...a useful source for information on religious broadcasters and programs.-Communication Booknotes Quarterly
...a well-researched, well-written, and interesting work, recommended for academic and public libraries.-Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
...future researshers will find this assemblage of organizational profiles, biographies, and bibliographies an invaluable resource.-Booklist/ Reference Books Bulletin
...this compendium, the first encyclopedia treatment of the epic, is one that serious scholars as well as curious readers will appreciate.... Prime-Time Religion helps to track the continuing cultural and political effects that faith-based belief systems have on the American social fabric....In addition to its research potential, this guide-book, together with local television or radio listings, will help earnest faith-seekers find desired programs.-ARBA
Prime-Time Religion is a valuable, carefully researched complement to Erickson's Religious Radio and Television in the United States for libraries that need additional coverage of this topic.-Insights
Recommended for academic libraries supporting religion and communication programs.-CHOICE
..."a useful source for information on religious broadcasters and programs."-Communication Booknotes Quarterly
..."a well-researched, well-written, and interesting work, recommended for academic and public libraries."-Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
..."future researshers will find this assemblage of organizational profiles, biographies, and bibliographies an invaluable resource."-Booklist/ Reference Books Bulletin
"Prime-Time Religion is a valuable, carefully researched complement to Erickson's Religious Radio and Television in the United States for libraries that need additional coverage of this topic."-Insights
"Recommended for academic libraries supporting religion and communication programs."-CHOICE
..."this compendium, the first encyclopedia treatment of the epic, is one that serious scholars as well as curious readers will appreciate.... Prime-Time Religion helps to track the continuing cultural and political effects that faith-based belief systems have on the American social fabric....In addition to its research potential, this guide-book, together with local television or radio listings, will help earnest faith-seekers find desired programs."-ARBA

Author Bio

J. Gordon Melton is director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, CA, and the author of more than 40 books on American and world religion. Phillip Charles Lucas, PhD, teaches American religion at Stetson University in Deland, FL. His monograph, The Odyssey of a New Religion: The Holy Order of MANS from New Age to Orthodoxy was published in 1995. Jon R. Stone, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and university lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. His published works include A Guide to the End of the World: Popular Eschatology in America; Latin for the Illiterati; and On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism: The Postwar Evangelical Coalition.