Church branding and self-packaging: the mass media and African pentecostal missionary strategy

The use of the mass media has become a contemporary and fast-growing religious phenomenon within Pentecostal and charismatic churches. By drawing implications on the use of modern media technologies, this article presents a popular case of a Charismatic church in Ghana and shows how the idea of bran...

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Main Author: Benyah, Francis (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill Dec 2018
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2018, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 231-254
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ghana / Pentecostal churches / Image / Akustische Markenführung / Mass media / Mission
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDG Free church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Church
B Media consumption
B Spheres of influence
B Missionary
B Charismatic churches
B Branding
B Marketing
B Role
B Modernity
B Mass Media
B Pentecostal churches
B Pentecostal
B Mass media
B Mission
B Performance
B Meaning
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