Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Bishop Eddie Long is a black televangelist based in Atlanta. In 2005, he was censured in the local press for accepting over three million dollars (including a $1.4 million home and a $350,000 car) in compensation from a nonprofit charity he had started 10 years prior. Long defended himself in the pr...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 483-484 |
Review of: | Watch this! (New York [u.a.] : New York University Press, 2009) (Draper, Scott)
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Summary: | Bishop Eddie Long is a black televangelist based in Atlanta. In 2005, he was censured in the local press for accepting over three million dollars (including a $1.4 million home and a $350,000 car) in compensation from a nonprofit charity he had started 10 years prior. Long defended himself in the press by explaining, “We're not just a church, we're an international corporation. We're not just a bumbling bunch of preachers who can't talk and all we're doing is baptizing babies. I deal with the White House. I deal with Tony Blair. I deal with presidents around this world. I pastor a multimillion dollar congregation. You've got to put me on a different scale than the little black preacher sitting over there that's supposed to be just getting by because the people are suffering” (137). |
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ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq056 |