The Mennonitization of the Mass Media in Paraguay
Abstract This article investigates how the churches in Paraguay have used multiple mass media as evangelization instruments and which churches dominate the mass media in 2010–2012, following the growth explosions of Pentecostalism in the 1980s–1990s and especially after 2002. Church uses of the prin...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2021
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Exchange
Année: 2021, Volume: 50, Numéro: 2, Pages: 128-152 |
| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianisme et société KBR Amérique Latine KDB Église catholique romaine KDD Église protestante KDG Église libre ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Pentecostalism
B Mass Media B Protestantism B Catholicism B Paraguay B Mennonite churches |
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| Résumé: | Abstract This article investigates how the churches in Paraguay have used multiple mass media as evangelization instruments and which churches dominate the mass media in 2010–2012, following the growth explosions of Pentecostalism in the 1980s–1990s and especially after 2002. Church uses of the printed media (books, magazines and newspapers), radio, television, and internet in Paraguay are all analyzed. Pentecostal and Protestant church leaders used radio, television, and internet to successfully brand their church, and to a limited extent attract and socialize new followers. Hardly any believers intensively follow religion in the mass media to replace going to church. The article concludes that rather than a Pentecostalization, a Mennonitization of the mass media is occurring in Paraguay, driven by the Mennonite groups’ economic power and their ethnic-religious solidarity. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-543X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Exchange
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1572543X-12341593 |