Sentences with phrase «religious programs within»

Producers of religious programs within churches have consistently had to fight to convince church hierarchies of the value of mass - media communication.

Interestingly, as the churches at home and abroad condemn apartheid with rising intensity, the South African Broadcasting Corporation has turned more and more of its religious programming within.

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«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.»

This change in FCC policy did not have an immediately dramatic effect on the nature of religious programming; however, it effectively changed the structure within which religious programming was to be considered by releasing stations from any regulatory obligation to provide free air - time for the broadcast of religious programs.

The FCC decision in relation to religious programming provided the structure within which station managers were freed from the obligation of having to distinguish between different expressions of religious faith or the representativeness of religious programming for a particular area.

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.

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.

When applied to religious television, we might predict that religious television programs will have their greatest effect on a viewer when the viewer is aroused because of a particular need; when the recommended action on the religious program becomes salient to the person because of a lack of other options within their repertoire; when the action is perceived as being a realistic and rewarding solution to the need; when the viewer has experienced favorable consequences as a result of the action in the past; and when the program presents options for action that the viewer has opportunity to perform.

While these programs may have given religious spokespersons greater publicity than they had had for some time, there has been substantial criticism within the church of the paid - time broadcasters» political activities.

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

In the light of these findings and the statistics on audience sizes for these programs, the paid - time religious programs appear not as a major thrust fully supported and influential on the evangelical movement as a whole, but as a rather small subculture within evangelicalism.

The adoption of this intensive audience solicitation within the organization enabled the program to expand to such an extent that in 1971 it was the third most widely syndicated religious program in the country.

By undercutting the moral basis of representativeness in religious programming on television, the paid - time religious broadcasters have removed one of the major contributions that religious groups could have made in influencing television in America: that of acting as agents in challenging the television industry to act within its moral responsibility as a utility for genuine social communication.

While one may reasonably expect some movement within the total picture it is unlikely that the overall size and characteristics of the paid - time religious program audience will vary significantly.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

She was, from the outset, concerned that raising income caps and including religious schools within voucher programs would again leave behind the poorest students.

A Madison religious school that has seen an enrollment boom under the state's private - school voucher program will move within weeks to a newly renovated Southwest Side location offering triple the space for its students.

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