Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier

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Acknowledgements

Ch 1: Getting Saved from the Televangelists

Ch 2: "God Bless Our President . . ." and Other Revolutionary Ideas

Ch 3: Communications Revolution and the Rise of the New Christian Right

Ch 4: We're Mad As Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore!

Ch 5: The Other Americans

Ch 6: Legitimizing the Movement

Ch 7: In My Father's House . ..

Ch 8: Is Anybody Listening? The Great Audience-size Debate

Ch 9: Politics As the Instrument of a New Ecumenical Movement

10.

Ch 10: Pat Who?

11.

Ch 11: The March of Folly

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. --Leon Festinger, et al., WhenProphecy Fails

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Ch 12: Is There Not a Cause?

13.

Ch 13: The Road to the White House

14.

Ch 14: A Strategy for Victory

15.

Ch 15: The American Cultural Revolution: The Next Step

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[1]

Epigraph: Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails (New York: Harper and Row, 1956, p. 3.) William Miller, Apology and Defense. Cited in Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schacter, When Prophecy Fails (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), p. 13.

[2]

Ibid., p. 15.

[3]

Ibid.

[[255]]

Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), p. 386.

[4]

Ibid., p. 7.

[5]

Louis Wirth, Preface to Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia trans. by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1936), pp. xxii-xxiii.

[6]

Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), p. 1.

[7]

Michael Schudson, Discovering the News (New York: Basic Books, 1978), p. 194.

[8]

Ibid., p. 155.

[9]

Cited in ibid., p. 154.

[10]

S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda S. Lichter, The Media Elite: America's New Powerbrokers (Bethesda, MD: Adler and Adler, 1986).

[11]

Ibid., p. 293.

[12]

Ibid., p. 294.

[13]

Ibid., p. 30.

[14]

Ibid., p. 47.

[15]

George Gallup, Jr., Religion in America. 50 Years: 1935-1985 (The Gallup Report, May 1985, No. 236), pp. 27, 40.

[16]

S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda S. Lichter, p. 295.

[17]

Ibid.

[18]

Ibid., pp. 295-6.

[19]

Ibid., p. 297.

[20]

Ibid., p. 296.

[21]

Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, p. 26.

[22]

S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda S. Lichter, p. 55.

[23]

Ibid.

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