{"product_id":"satellite-ministries-the-rise-of-christian-television-in-the-middle-east-9780197796962","title":"Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Febe Armanios\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Living - Spiritual Growth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1981, a satellite television station called Star of Hope began broadcasting from Israeli-occupied South Lebanon. Backed by American missionaries, Israeli politicians, and Lebanese Catholic leaders, the channel aired Western entertainment and Christian content using a repurposed ABC \u003cem\u003eMonday Night Football\u003c\/em\u003e truck situated on the Israel-Lebanon border. Later renamed Middle East Television (METV), its programming included American soap operas, sports, and evangelical content alongside innovative Arabic Christian televangelism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was a station of enormous consequence. METV spurred the growth of competing Christian broadcasters and reshaped the Middle East's media and religious landscape over the next four decades. Yet it was, of course, controversial--its foreign, imperialist, and proselytizing approach to media was a source of curiosity and consternation in the region and, occasionally, around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categories: Western-backed conservative outlets with a charismatic and apocalyptic outlook; middle-ground channels that sought to balance their international sponsors' expectations with local interests; and grassroots initiatives rooted in ancient church traditions. The histories and programming strategies of primarily Arabic, but also Turkish and Persian, Christian channels reveal how media producers forged unexpected political alliances, pursued sectarian objectives, and navigated various transnational influences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSatellite Ministries\u003c\/em\u003e explores how modern expressions of faith, technology, and political power intersected and clashed across the Global South and beyond. In this groundbreaking work, Armanios presents a crucial examination of this unique and little-known media landscape.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779270000791,"sku":"9780197796962","price":3922.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197796962.webp?v=1778034925","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/satellite-ministries-the-rise-of-christian-television-in-the-middle-east-9780197796962","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}