"Television preachers" refers to religious leaders who have their own television programs where they preach and spread their religious teachings to a wide audience.
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Some effort has been made to determine whether
popular television preachers consistently express themes presumed to be compatible with values in the larger society.
As Egyptians returned to Tahrir Square to push for the realization of more political demands, one of the world's most influential
Muslim television preachers delivered his first address in Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak left office.
The other day someone told me about a friend who had been asked to preach in the church of one of the
famous television preachers whom millions watch every Sunday.
Such big - time evangelists as Argentine Luis Palau and
U.S. television preacher Jimmy Swaggart pack city stadiums with tens of thousands of enthusiasts; only the pope draws larger crowds.
(The path to the abundant life Aslan offers her is rather different from what one may sometimes hear
from television preachers.)
Mabel symbolizes American Christianity not in the fact that she
watches television preachers, but in the strange dialectic of public and private in her religious life.
Christian fundamentalists are often linked to
particular television preachers like Jerry Falwell or Oral Roberts, so that the sense of community is much less marked among them than among Jewish fundamentalists, for whom the community is the central fact of life.
But no other preachers face the overwhelming pressures faced
by television preachers, who have no leisure to reflect on the integrity of changes being called for by advisers, and for whom the continued existence of one's whole $ l - million - a-week organization virtually hangs on each decision.
This time Hardin successfully defended Victoria Osteen, wife of
television preacher Joel Osteen, against a civil claim filed by Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown.
Cairo, Egypt - One of the world's most influential
Muslim television preachers - sometimes called Islam's Billy Graham - is scheduled to deliver a major address in Egypt on Friday for the first time since President Hosni Mubarak left office.
But
the television preacher with the megawatt smile put his cards on the table in his hourlong interview with Morgan.
No television preacher of national renown orients his or her program from a strictly empiric viewpoint.
«The religious establishment has not allowed the intelligence of high scholarship to pass through pastors and priests to a hungry laity,» and
television preachers have «played on the ignorance of the uninformed.»
More moderately, some journalists observed that
the television preachers, by unifying and motivating otherwise inactive voters, could hold the key to the election.