Members' books

Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice & Global and Local Televangelism

Philip Lee and Pradip Ninan Thomas, editors.

IAMCR members Philip Lee and Pradip Thomas have recently co-edited two books, one on televangelism and the other on media, memory and justice.

Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice

How does the construction, representation and distortion of public memory affect the way we treat other people? How is policy-making influenced by the way the media cover contentious issues such as the ongoing but largely ignored conflict between Russia and Chechnya? Or the claims of indigenous people in Peru to know what really happened during the war against the Shining Path, or South Africa's post-apartheid attempts to build a new nation? Contributors to this book explore the challenges and obstacles to affirming a universal right to memory on the long road to justice for all.

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Title: Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice
Editors: Philip Lee and Pradip Ninan Thomas
Published: 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 240 pp
ISBN: 9780230354067

Global and Local Televangelism

Televangelism is an evolving global phenomenon. While it may have begun in the USA in the late 1960s, the liberalization of global television in the 1990s along with the spread of satellite and cable television has enabled a variety of global and local expressions of televangelism today. The spread of Islamic television in the Arab world and Indonesia shows no sign of abating, while the Hindu televangelist Baba Ramdev has become a household name through his marketing of yoga-based health and well being products. This book explores and engages with the changing face of global and local televangelism – with the globalization of Christian televangelism in India, Nigeria, Ghana, Guatemala and Brazil, and with the branded nature of televangelism in contemporary USA. While US style televangelism has influenced its Islamic and Hindu variants, it is clear there is an evolving local tenor that is influenced as much by local cultural and religious practices as by economics and politics. The resurgence of religious identities the world over has been accompanied by the presence of religion in the media. These media have been put to use in multiple intra and inter-religious battles over souls and purses and these struggles, in particular, have been fought out
on television screens.

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Title:Global and Local Televangelism
Editors: Pradip Ninan Thomasand Philip Lee
Published: 2012
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 264 pp
ISBN: 9780230348103

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The authors

Philip Lee is Deputy Director of Programmes at the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), an international organization that promotes communication as a basic human right, essential to people’s dignity and community. Pradip Ninan Thomas is Co-Director at the Centre for Communication & Social Change, University of Queensland, Australia. He has written extensively on issues related to the media and religion. He has been elected as Vice President of IAMCR.

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