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“MODERN DAY HEROES OF FAITH”: THE RHETORIC OF TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK AND THE EMERGENT WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT

Hladky, Kathleen Mahoney

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2006, Master of Arts, Miami University, Religion.
This thesis uses Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) as a case study for the exploration of religious broadcasting in America and the emergent Word of Faith movement. TBN is investigated as a challenge to the scholarly and popular understandings of religious broadcasting by considering it as a media-based church facilitating religious experience and community through technology. In order to understand TBN and its theological tenets better, the connection between the Word of Faith movement and Trinity Broadcasting Network is demonstrated through statistical and visual analysis of the flagship TBN program Praise the Lord. Additionally, this thesis examines the unique role of technology in TBN’s end-times theology and in the development of Word of Faith. Finally, the political investments of TBN are explored, paying attention to the way that encoded visual texts subtly point readers to a socially conservative, American, and properly Christian, but distinctively TBN, identity.
James Hanges (Advisor)
90 p.

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  • Hladky, K. M. (2006). “MODERN DAY HEROES OF FAITH”: THE RHETORIC OF TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK AND THE EMERGENT WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154624326

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hladky, Kathleen. “MODERN DAY HEROES OF FAITH”: THE RHETORIC OF TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK AND THE EMERGENT WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT. 2006. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154624326.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hladky, Kathleen. "“MODERN DAY HEROES OF FAITH”: THE RHETORIC OF TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK AND THE EMERGENT WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154624326

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)