Sentences with phrase «religious programs as»

Central to an understanding of what will be the future of religious television in America is the fact noted in the research on audience sizes: that the audiences for paid - time religious programs as a whole reached a plateau around the year 1977.

It may be that the power of television will come to be seen as of greater importance than the individual influence of any particular religious program or even religious programs as a whole.

Each of these results has had a marked shaping effect on religious programs as well, particularly those programs that have placed themselves in a situation where their continued existence depends on their successfully competing within this system.

Hence Ben Armstrong, representing the paid - time broadcasters, has criticized the network and mainline denominational religious programs as being too slow and sterile for television.

Research by the Christian Broadcasting Network indicates that most of their viewers regularly watch other religious programs as well.

For this reason they understand their viewing of religious programs as both an act of protest against the «evils» of general television and an affirmation of their support for the worldview expressed within the electronic - church programs.

Most stations broadcast a certain amount of religious programming as part of their license obligation to operate in the public interest.

While the research in this area is still only suggestive and probably does not apply to the high - demand markets, it corresponds to what has been noted in relation to the lack of growth in overall religious programming as a consequence of paid - time programming and other syndication characteristics for religious programming.

Not exact matches

She focused on the Klan for her dissertation as part of a PhD program in American religious history, and her thoughts on what she learned are illuminating — but not about the Klan.

United Health Programs employees were being forced to follow a «Harnessing Happiness» system that required them to engage in activities such as prayers, religious workshops and «spiritual cleansing rituals,» according to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC.

I listen to how they talk about matters of faith, religion, what they watch on their favorite religious tv programs, often listening as well to their radios playing their favored «Christian music» radio stations in the background, what are in the lyrics.

This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

When the refugee program resumes, the Trump administration plans to prioritize refugees who have undergone persecution as a religious minority.

Colleges may still have to certify they do not discriminate in order for their students to be eligible; and the threat of liability from private lawsuits may be just as effective as an agency decision in driving the college either to drop out of the grant program or to violate its religious tenets.

The Crystal Cathedral, with its fountains and flowers, catches — as other major religious television programs holding different world views do not — the awareness that the world and its inhabitants are good and that in such recognition the world moves toward wholesome fulfillment.

At FPU religious freedom would only apply to the seminary and to undergraduate programs such as Bible and Christian ministry.

The comments filed Monday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services express concerns over the regulations» exemption of houses of worship but not other religious entities such as schools, hospitals and social welfare program providers.

Religious programs on television are not a new phenomenon: they have been a part of the schedule since television's first year of operation, just as religious programs were some of the earlier types of broadcasts Religious programs on television are not a new phenomenon: they have been a part of the schedule since television's first year of operation, just as religious programs were some of the earlier types of broadcasts religious programs were some of the earlier types of broadcasts on radio.

«If I were a conservative Christian (which I most certainly am not), I would be very reasonably fearful, not just as to tax exemptions but as to a wide range of other programs — fearful that within a generation or so, my religious beliefs would be treated the same way as racist religious beliefs are.»

The practice of the networks was to produce religious programs, either by making production facilities, technical services and some budget resources available to the religious groups for the production of their own programs, or by using these religious agencies as consultants on their own religious programs.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

And, as Jean - Louis Brindamour, who developed Pyramid Publications» religious program, points out, «The phenomenal growth of sales so far tells us that time and a determined public will eventually force even greater space for such books where they do not yet appear.»

When television came in about 1950, each of these «faith groups» was given time each Sunday for their TV programs — programs which were broadly representative of the religious and cultural diversity of the country as a whole.

The program of the institutional church was planned to meet the social and cultural as well as the religious needs of the neighborhood.

When government and churches (or FBOs) engage in a direct financial contract, smooth navigation between Charitable Choice's front and back ends seems best achieved when the FBO remains true to its religious character — offering clients what it regards as a holistic ministry — yet agrees to compartmentalize its programming.

Pastor Tim Criss of the Blame Street Baptist Church in Peoria commented, «Our program is unabashedly religious and nothing in our contract prevents our identity as a faith - based organization.»

Many twelve - step program followers (who abide by the twelve steps used in AA and other «Anonymous» groups) today make a distinction between spiritual and religious, as if religion were automatically a bad thing.

As will be seen, the growth of independent UHF stations markedly increased the pressure on other stations to maximize their profitability, even on religious programming.

Some network religious specials also rate as high as or higher than the syndicated paid - time programs.

As will be seen in more detail subsequently, Nielsen figures for 1979 show only five syndicated religious programs that were able to gain equal to or greater than a rating of one.

While these programs are usually beneficial to the community, they serve as platforms for religious dogma — the old «hey we are doing something for you so you need to listen to, and believe what we tell you regardless of how counterintuitive it may seem».

While this regulation has encouraged stations to present some religious programming, as has been noted the FCC through its rulings has largely left the determination of the content of this religious programming to the individual station managers.

So accustomed are all of us to conceive the church as an assortment of either consciously planned programs or irrational religious feelings that illustrations of symbolic interaction are necessary to warm us to the notion that congregations have cultures as well as activities, policies, and emotions.

As has been noted also, the audiences for the paid - time programs tended to be more demonstrative in support of their programs than were the audiences of other religious programs.

Viewers of sustaining - time religious programs have never been as loyal or demonstrative, nor has this aspect of viewing been cultivated.

After conducting a review of its faith based programming, the network said it wants to raise its game across all religious output, reach as many people as possible and portray the diversity of beliefs and society.

As in the case with program production, this media - reform approach is not likely to achieve significant success in «worldly» terms, since the power of The Technique and its media manifestations are so powerful, but from a religious standpoint the objective is nevertheless essential.

Peter Horsfield, in his doctoral thesis on religious television, identified the themes of electronic - church programming as follows:

Personally, I think the money spent on church and other religious advertising should go to social programs as well.

One bill would have permitted churches to receive public funds so long as they promised not to offer religious instruction as part of child - care programs.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

Revolution is clear about what the law should be: «As long as people have a choice about where they go for help, then it should not be a problem if the government funds a program in which a person... becomes a good citizen, employee, and family member through religious transformation.&raquAs long as people have a choice about where they go for help, then it should not be a problem if the government funds a program in which a person... becomes a good citizen, employee, and family member through religious transformation.&raquas people have a choice about where they go for help, then it should not be a problem if the government funds a program in which a person... becomes a good citizen, employee, and family member through religious transformation.»

The crucial significance of religious humanism for new turns in religious thought consists in its illumination of radical freedom / autonomy as the essence of human reality and its program to construct a systematic theology / philosophy on the exclusively anthropological foundation of the functional ultimacy of humankind as the theological singular.

Thus heavy viewers of religious programs are more likely than light viewers to describe themselves as conservative, to oppose a nuclear freeze, to favor tougher laws against pornography, and to have voted in the last election.

The national survey used an index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor, including contributing to or attending church, participation in community activities, income, age or sex.

He writes: «The instruction's call to affective maturity as a necessary condition for a healthy celibate priesthood and religious life affirms the long - standing goal of our formation program — both initial and continuing.

Perhaps most important, as the study puts it, «in both prime - time drama and religious programs, blue - collar workers, the unemployed, the retired and housewives are practically invisible.

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The national survey used the «literalist / charismatic» index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor — including attending church, contributing to a church, participating in community activities, income, age, or sex.

Protestants who used to show little interest in religious retreats (except for youth programs) are now borrowing Catholic retreat models, such as Marriage Encounter.