Televised redemption : Black religious media and racial empowerment / Carolyn Moxley Rouse, John L. Jackson, Jr., and Marla F. Frederick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965- author.

Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971- author.

Frederick, Marla Faye, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Religion on television.

Television broadcasting--Religious aspects.

Television broadcasting.

Television in religion--United States.

Television in religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The structures of white supremacy require a belief that black people lack the moral and intellectual capacities of white people. However, the African American religious media has long played a key role in humanizing the race by unabashedly claiming that blacks are endowed with the same goodness and reason as whites. It racism is a form of perception, then religious media has altered both how others perceive blacks and how blacks perceive themselves. This book argues that black religious media has provided black Americans with new tools for how to be in the world and changed how black people are turned info moral citizens. To make these claims to black racial equality, this media has encouraged dispositional changes in adherents that have been at times empowering and at other times repressive. From Christian televangelism to Muslim periodicals to Hebrew Israelite radio, Televised Redemption explores the complicated but-critical redemptive history of African American religious media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Redemptive media histories

Black Christian redemption: contested possibilities

Racial redemption: language in Muslim media

Divine redemption: Hebrew Israelites and the saving of the world

Religious media and Black self-formation

Reimagined possibilities: prosperity and the journey to redemption

Race, Islam, and longings for inclusion: Muslim media and twenty-first-century redemption

Citizens as stewards: on the air, online, and in the community.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479876037

1479876038

9781479818174

1479818178

OCLC:

946161312