Christendom, the ummah and community in the age of televangelism

Bibliographic Data

ID19006159
AuthorsJulia Day Howell (Western Sydney University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume61
Issue2
Pages234-249
Publication date2014-05-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0037768614524322
OpenAlexW2334253770
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

The author extends the comparative analysis of religion in late modernity beyond its place of origin in North Atlantic Christian-heritage countries to the Muslim world, asking whether processes of industrial and post-industrial change that have intensified religious individualization and the erosion of the parish-based religious community in the early-developer countries have stimulated similar transformations in the social forms of religious life in the later-developing Muslim-heritage countries as well. Analysis of a newly salient type of religious mobilization in Muslim Indonesia – mass audience religious revival ( dakwah) ministries promoted through televangelism and mass prayer rallies – shows that key features of late-modern North Atlantic religiosity, including seeker spirituality, fluidity of participation, the importance of religious experience, the prominence of lay leaders and preference for an immanent, loving God, are also evident in these new Asian Islamic mobilizations

Charisma · Environmental ethics · Islam · Modernity · Political science · Prayer · Religiosity · Salient · Secularization · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious studies

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