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Broadcasting the Faith

  • Hardback
  • 188 pages
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For students of church history and media

Shows how radio changed 20th-century preaching

Understand the impact of technology on faith

An engaging look at how the early rise of religious radio shaped the theology and public witness of the American church.

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Broadcasting the Faith tells the riveting story of the American church's embrace of radio in the early decades of the twentieth century. By investigating major radio personalities like Walter Maier, Aimee Semple McPherson, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and Charles Fuller, this study considers the implications for theology in America when Christianity moved to the airwaves. In the heyday of radio, religious-radio preachers sought to use their programs to counter the secularization of American culture. Ultimately, however, their programs contributed to secularization by accelerating changes already evident in both the conservative and liberal streams of American Christianity. To reach a vast American audience, radio preachers transformed their sectarian messages into a religion more suitable to the masses, thereby altering the very religion it aimed to preserve. To make religion accessible to large and diverse audiences, radio preachers accommodated their messages in ways suited to the medium of radio. Although religious-radio preachers set forth to advance the influence of religion in American society, their choice to limit theological substance ironically promoted the secularization of the American church.
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  • Title

    Broadcasting the Faith

  • Author

    Pohlman Michael E. Pohlman

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Wipf and Stock

  • Published

    February 2021

  • Weight

    427g

  • Page Count

    188

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725290839

  • ISBN-10

    1725290839

  • Eden Code

    5539853