Televangelism

Televangelism is Christian preaching and ministry conducted through television broadcasts, often funded by viewer donations. It brings worship, religious teaching, and appeals for support into broadcast media.

Christian broadcasting: The production and distribution of Christian programming through radio, television, and digital media. Televangelism is the television-based form of this broader religious media practice.
Aimee Semple McPherson: An American evangelist who founded the Foursquare Church and used emerging mass media in her ministry. Her radio and theatrical methods anticipated later forms of broadcast evangelism.
Billy Graham: An American Baptist evangelist known for large public crusades and extensive use of broadcast media. His televised crusades brought evangelical preaching to audiences beyond stadiums.
Electronic Church: A term for religious communities and worship experiences mediated through broadcast and electronic media. Televangelism helped make mediated worship a familiar alternative to congregational attendance.
Radio evangelism: Christian preaching and ministry distributed through radio broadcasts. It reaches listeners without television’s visual presentation of preachers and worship.
Religious television: Television programming devoted to religious worship, teaching, news, or culture. It provides the broadcast formats through which televangelists reach audiences.
Oral Roberts: An American Pentecostal evangelist and healing preacher who built a large radio and television ministry. His broadcasts helped establish television as a platform for mass evangelism.
Jimmy Swaggart: An American Pentecostal preacher and gospel musician who hosted a widely distributed television ministry. His ministry illustrates the prominence and vulnerability of personality-led broadcasts.
Religious fundraising: The practice of soliciting money to support religious institutions, activities, or causes. Television gave ministries direct access to large audiences of potential donors.
Street preaching: Public religious preaching delivered in streets or other open spaces. It depends on physical public presence rather than broadcast reach.

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