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Preaching to the Converted: Making Responsible Evangelical Subjects Through Media by Holly Thomas a Thesis Submitted to the Facu
Preaching to the Converted: Making Responsible Evangelical Subjects Through Media By Holly Thomas A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2016, Holly Thomas Abstract This dissertation examines contemporary televangelist discourses in order to better articulate prevailing models of what constitutes ideal-type evangelical subjectivities and televangelist participation in an increasingly mediated religious landscape. My interest lies in apocalyptic belief systems that engage end time scenarios to inform understandings of salvation. Using a Foucauldian inspired theoretical-methodology shaped by discourse analysis, archaeology, and genealogy, I examine three popular American evangelists who represent a diverse array of programming content: Pat Robertson of the 700 Club, John Hagee of John Hagee Today, and Jack and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Presents. I argue that contemporary evangelical media packages now cut across a variety of traditional and new technologies to create a seamless mediated empire of participatory salvation where believers have access to complementary evangelist products and messages twenty-four hours a day from a multitude of access points. For these reasons, I now refer to televangelism as mediated evangelism and televangelists as mediated evangelists while acknowledging that the televised programs still form the cornerstone of their mediated messages and engagement with believers. The discursive formations that take shape through this landscape of mediated evangelism contribute to an apocalyptically informed religious-political subjectivity that identifies civic and political engagement as an expected active choice and responsibility for attaining salvation, in line with other more obviously evangelical religious practices, like prayer, repentance, and acceptance of Jesus Christ as savior. -
The Christian Right and Israel: a Love Story?
W&M ScholarWorks Undergraduate Honors Theses Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 4-2017 The Christian Right and Israel: A Love Story? Joseph Malanson College of William and Mary Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses Part of the American Politics Commons, and the Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Malanson, Joseph, "The Christian Right and Israel: A Love Story?" (2017). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 1113. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1113 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 0 Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 1 Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................ 2 I. Introduction: Israel, Evangelicals, and the Christian Right ........................................................ 3 II. Interest Groups, Religion, and American Foreign Policy: The Literature .............................. 10 III. Hypotheses and Data Descriptions ........................................................................................ 31 IV. Israel, the Christian Right, and Republican Party Presidential Primaries -
The Fire in the Firefly: the Unspoken (Speaks)
Northern Michigan University NMU Commons All NMU Master's Theses Student Works 5-2016 The irF e in the Firefly: The nsU poken (Speaks) Ania S. Payne Northern Michigan University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.nmu.edu/theses Part of the Nonfiction Commons Recommended Citation Payne, Ania S., "The irF e in the Firefly: Then U spoken (Speaks)" (2016). All NMU Master's Theses. 87. https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/87 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at NMU Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in All NMU Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of NMU Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected],[email protected]. THE FIRE IN THE FIREFLY: THE UNSPOKEN (SPEAKS) By Ania Sonora Payne THESIS Submitted to Northern Michigan University In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS Office of Graduate Education and Research May 2016 SIGNATURE APPROVAL FORM The Fire in the Firefly: The Unspoken (Speaks) This thesis by Ania Sonora Payne is recommended for approval by the student’s Thesis Committee and Department Head in the Department of English and by the Assistant Provost of Graduate Education and Research. Committee Chair: Matthew Gavin Frank Date First Reader: Jennifer Howard Date Second Reader: Rachel May Date Department Head: Dr. Lynn Domina Date Dr. Robert J. Winn Date Interim Assistant Provost of Graduate Education and Research ABSTRACT THE FIRE IN THE FIREFLY: THE UNSPOKEN (SPEAKS) By Ania Sonora Payne This collection of nonfiction essays explores life and the way that we, as animals—humans, mammals, insects—engage the world that we all share together, both from a personal perspective and from a distant, 3rd person perspective. -
Rapture Rhetoric: Prophetic Epistemology of the Left Behind
RAPTURE RHETORIC: PROPHETIC EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE LEFT BEHIND SUBCULTURE A Thesis by KRISTIN DAWN HILL Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2007 Major Subject: Communication RAPTURE RHETORIC: PROPHETIC EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE LEFT BEHIND SUBCULTURE A Thesis by KRISTIN DAWN HILL Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Approved by: Chair of Committee, James Arnt Aune Committee Members, Kurt W. Ritter Rebecca Hankins Head of Department, Richard L. Street August 2007 Major Subject: Communication iii ABSTRACT Rapture Rhetoric: Prophetic Epistemology of the Left Behind Subculture. (August 2007) Kristin Dawn Hill, B.A., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. James Arnt Aune This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of prophetic texts, non-fiction premillennialist dispensational studies, the fictional series, Left Behind and interviews with series’ readers. This thesis argues that prophetic rhetoric constitutes an epistemological position whereby Rapture believers create knowledge, cast knowledge as good or evil and finally act as gatekeepers to determine what can and should be known. Rapture subculture is composed of both a hard core and a set of narrative believers, those who have acquired the nomenclature, but perhaps not the dogmatic belief in a Rapture, Tribulation, Armageddon, and Millennium schema. The process of turning narrative believers into hard core believers relies on the use of a range of topoi, appeals to authority, evil and time. Rapture rhetoric, aimed at bolstering the beliefs of the hard core and cultivating the beliefs of those still undecided, relies on the process of transfer to gain acceptance for one claim based on acceptance of another and then relies on narrative plasticity to enlarge the basis for those accepted claims. -
Performances of Faith at Orlando's Holy Land Experience
Where Christ Dies Daily: Performances of Faith at Orlando‘s Holy Land Experience by Sara B. Dykins Callahan A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Communication College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Stacy Holman Jones, Ph.D. Eric Eisenberg, Ph.D. Navita James, Ph.D. Daniel Belgrad, Ph.D. Date of Approval: January 22, 2010 Keywords: tourism, pilgrimage, heritage, sacred, faith © Copyright 2010, Sara B. Dykins Callahan To Rick: the reason. Acknowledgments I would like to thank all of the people who supported me through this process and who generously contributed their time and assistance. I‘ve dedicated this manuscript to my husband, Rick, whose love, patience, and faith in me are my foundation. I would also like to acknowledge Truman, Tula, and Ollie, for their ability to keep me sane: sitting on my lap when I was dejected, licking my face when I needed comfort, and always their uncompromising adoration. I would like to thank my committee members for their mentorship and their willingness to read this very long document. And thank you, Stacy, for your guidance and your unyielding belief in my ability to finish this project. Table of Contents List of Figures v Abstract vi Prelude: It Ends Here 1 Chapter 1: Genesis 3 Field Notes: July 14, 2007 3 To Tell the Old, Old story 4 Finding ―Jesus‖ 5 Building a Mystery 8 Mapping the Site 9 Controversy With the Jewish Community 10 TBN and the New HLE 12 Casting Lots: Administrative -
Chapter 3: the Social Network of Premillennialist Websites
Chapter 3: The Social Network of Premillennialist Websites Paula Nicole Booke Ph.D. Candidate University of Chicago [email protected] Premillennialism is an important political phenomenon in America. It has profound implications for preference on a wide range of policy fields from foreign policy to environmentalism. This chapter offers a brief history and theory of the politicization of premillennialism in the American context and using social network analysis examines the relationship between this phenomenon and preference for policy positions on Israel, secularization, globalization, environmentalism and government regulation. Web-based network analysis which offers both an important methodological tool and a theoretical paradigm is used to examine the social structures of premillennial websites and their relationship to the policies implicit in the narrative of premillennialism. Increasingly, the World Wide Web has come to represent a virtual forum for the exchange of ideas; connecting website creators to specific and knowledgeable issue publics, as well as informing audiences about and converting them to new points of view. Using the IssueCrawler program I performed a co-link (relational) analysis. Three separate networks will be examined: Christian Right Elite Network, Beliefnet Black Spiritual Leader Network, and a Issue Centric Network. The networks are examined for evidence of premillennial policy positions to ascertain whether or not elites link their online audiences to the policy positions implicit in the premillennial narrative. The author thanks the University of Rochester Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship 2008-2009 and Professor Valeria Sinclair-Chapman for her kind advice; my committee members Melissa Harris-Lacewell of Princeton University, John Brehm of the University of Chicago, Corwin Smidt of Calvin College and Jean Elshtain of the University of Chicago for their gracious support; as well as Richard Rogers and the Govcom.org Foundation for use of the IssueCrawler program. -
Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. I assessed the theological significance of this literary genre in Rapture fiction and the evangelical crisis (Webster, NY: Emmaus, 2006) and traced its origins and development in Writing the rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). 2. See, for example, Steve Brouwer et al., Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism (New York: Routledge, 1996), and Gabriel Abraham Almond et al., Strong religion: The rise of fundamentalisms around the world (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). 3. See, for example, Steve Bruce, The rise and fall of the new Christian right: Conservative protestant politics in America, 1978–1988 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988); Steve Bruce et al. (eds), The rapture of politics: The Christian right as the United States approaches the year 2000 (London: Transaction Publishers, 1995); and Martin Durham, The Christian Right, the far right and the bounda- ries of American conservatism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000). See also Robert Fuller, Naming the Antichrist: The history of an American obsession (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), and, more generally on the political implications of religious conservatism, Terry Eagleton, Holy terror (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 4. See, for two most useful among the many discussions of this phenomenon, Paul Boyer, When time shall be no more: Prophecy belief in modern American cul- ture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992), and Nicholas Guyatt, Have a nice doomsday: Why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world (London: Ebury Press, 2007). On the politi- cal implications of evangelical prophetic belief, see, more generally, Erling Jorstad, The politics of doomsday: Fundamentalists of the far right (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1970); John M.