Thomas, Pradip Ninan

Strong religion, zealous media/ Pradip Ninan Thomas - New Delhi: Sage, 2008. - 206 p.

Introduction --
Section I: Locating the study --
Christian fundamentalism and other fundamentalisms --
Christian fundamentalism and the media --
Christianity in India --
Pentecostalism and neo-Pentecostalism : the global and the local --
Section II: Theory and concepts --
Bourdieu, Christianity, and mediated Christianity in India --
Section III: The cultural/media practices of Christian fundamentalism --
The changing nature of Christian broadcasting in India --
Cyber-contestations : Christian and Hindu fundamentalisms on the web --
Benny Hinn's festival of blessings : the analysis of a Christian crusade in India --
Section IV: Towards another religious communication --
Communication and the search for inter-subjective futures.

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Fundamentalism -- India.
Mass media in religion -- India.
Communication -- India.

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