Televangelism
Known case of television preachers in the Christian area also televangelists ( portmanteau of " Television" and " evangelist " ), is a preacher who use the mass medium of television to spread their morals and messages.
Television preacher in Christianity
Some American televangelists have even TV stations. This makes it possible for them to influence public opinion, especially in the so-called Bible Belt. Through continuous appeals for donations they collect significant financial resources. Known representatives are Pat Robertson, Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, Gene Scott, Jerry Falwell, Jerry Vines, Benny Hinn, Marcus Lamb, Jim Bakker and Peter Popoff. The latter two were convicted of fraud and financial irregularities.
In Europe, the phenomenon of televangelist is not widespread, television stations such as Bible TV, K TV or ERF television daily reach only a few tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of spectators and also act less on the person of a preacher bound than comparable stations in the United States. The Polish broadcaster TV TRWAM, which was founded as the radio station Radio Maria Tadeusz Rydzyk, reached an audience of 0.15%.
TV preachers in Islam
In Muslim countries, televangelists are mostly Sunnis, but not, as often stated erroneously fundamentalists or Islamists. One of the most popular Sunni scholar who has the opportunity to speak almost weekly, Yusuf al -Qaradawi (on al - Jazeera in the program Ash- Sharia wa al - Haja ). Very popular also the Egyptian Amr Khaled is ( not a scholar ) that occurs among others in the channel Iqra Islam of Arab Radio and Television Network. Other scholars are, inter alia, 'Umar ' Abd al - Kafi and theology professor Suad Salih. The records of some scholars are also distributed on CD, DVD or MC.