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

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Ch 10: Pat Who?

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Ch 11: The March of Folly

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Ch 12: Is There Not a Cause?

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Ch 13: The Road to the White House

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Ch 14: A Strategy for Victory

Here's what . . . [the people] . . . want in a president. They want somebody, first of all, that is honest and will tell it to them like it is....what people want first is integrity. And the second thing they want is leadership. They want somebody who will be able to be a leader and get things done. The third thing they want is a communicator. They know instinctively that they need a leader who can enunciate noble goals for this country and then mobilize public opinion behind them. That, I think, is more important, in their view, than political experience, which they put down relatively low because there is no experience for that job.... So you have to look at all the other candidates out there and decide which one. fill these roles. --Pat Robertson, Before The Economic Club of Detroit

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Ch 15: The American Cultural Revolution: The Next Step

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Notes

[1]

Epigraph: Pat Robertson, Transcript of Speech to The Economic Club of Detroit, September 22, 1986. Ronnie Dugger, "Does Reagan Expect a Nuclear Armageddon?" Washington Post, April 8, 1984.

[2]

William C. Martin, The Atlantic, June 1982. Cited in Dugger, April 8, 1984.

[3]

Pat Robertson, America's Dates With Destiny (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1986), p. 19.

[4]

Ibid.

[5]

Ibid.

[14]

Interview with authors, August 7, 1986.

[6]

"How God Speaks to People Today," nationwide poll conducted by The Gallup Organization for the Christian Broadcasting Network, October 1986.

[7]

Ibid.

[8]

Quoted in "Idea of God's Guidance Accepted," Charlottesville Daily Progress, December 9, 1986.

[9]

The first survey was published in 1975: Andrew Greeley, The Sociology of the Paranormal: A Reconnaissance (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications). Preliminary results of the follow-up study appeared in an article by Father Greeley in American Health, "Mysticism Goes Mainstream," January/February 1987, pp. 47-49.

[10]

Ibid., p. 49.

[11]

Ibid., p. 48.

[12]

Ibid., p. 47.

[13]

Bob Arnebeck, "FDR Invoked God, Too," Washington Post, September 21, 1986.

[14]

Ibid.

[15]

Ibid.

[16]

Robert Dugan, in Washington Insight, 8 (November), 1986. Newsletter of the National Association of Evangelicals Office of Public Affairs.

[17]

Interview with authors, December 18, 1986.

[18]

National Association of Evangelicals news release, April 29, 1986.

[19]

Clifford Goldstein, "The Christian Right: Will It Bring Political Pentecost to America?" Liberty 81 (November/December), 1986, p. 5.

[20]

Henry Klingeman, "I Just Called to Say I Love You," National Review, November 7, 1986, p. 29.

[21]

Address to Virginia Republican Party Leadership Advance, December 6, 1986, Staunton, VA.

[22]

Ellen Hume, "Voters Seek a Leader Who is Both Strong and Straightforward," Wall Street Journal, May 22, 1987.

[23]

Jim Castelli, "Pat Robertson: Extremist." Unpublished manuscript (Washington, DC: People for the American Way, 1986).

[24]

Dick Daebney, "God's Own Network," Harper's, August 1980, pp. 33-52.

[25]

Robert Dugan, in Washington Insight, 8 (November), 1986. Newsletter of the National Association of Evangelicals Office of Public Affairs.

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