Contents

Acknowledgments

Prelude

Invocation: Time to Tune In: The Phenomenon of African American Religious Broadcasting

1 We Too Sing America: Racial Invisibility, Respectability, and the Roots of Black Religious Broadcasting

2 Something Within: The Cultural Sources of: Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II

3 Standing on the Promises: Diversity and Change within Contemporary Black Christian Practices

4 Come, Ye Disconsolate: The Ministry of Bishop: T. D. Jakes

5 We Are Soldiers! The Ministry of: Bishop Eddie L. Long

6 Fill My Cup, Lord: The Ministry of Pastors Creflo and Taffi Dollar

7 The Reasons Why We Sing: The Competing Rituals of Self-Affirmation and Social Accommodation

8 Lift Every Voice: Authority, Ideology, and the Implications of Religious Broadcasting for the Black Church

BENEDICTION: Blest Be the Tie That Binds

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