Quick Facts
- Key People:
- Jim Bakker
- Kenneth Copeland
- Paula White
- Joyce Meyer
- Benny Hinn
- Related Topics:
- mission
- television
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Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker
Televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker on the set of The PTL Club, staged in front of a studio audience and broadcast live, 1986.
televangelism
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televangelism, Evangelism through religious programs on television. Such programs are usually hosted by a fundamentalist Protestant minister, who conducts services and often asks for donations. Many televangelists have been proponents of prosperity gospel, which teaches that faith draws health, wealth, and happiness into believersâ lives. Billy Graham became known worldwide through his TV specials from the 1950s on. Other prominent televangelists have included Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Benny Hinn, and Pat Robertson.
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