Televangelism

==Terminology==
The word ''televangelism'' is a [[portmanteau]] of [[television]] and [[evangelism]] and it was coined in 1958 as the title of a television miniseries by the [[Southern Baptist Convention]].<ref>Denis J. Bekkering, "From 'Televangelist' to 'Intervangelist': The Emergence of the Streaming Video Preacher." ''The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture'' 23, no.2 (2011), 101–117.</ref> [[Jeffrey K. Hadden]] and Charles E. Swann have been credited with popularising the word in their 1981 survey ''Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism''.<ref>Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann, ''Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism''. Addison-Wesley, 1981. {{ISBN|978-0201038859}}.</ref> However, the term ''televangelist'' was employed by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine already in 1952, when telegenic Roman Catholic Bishop [[Fulton Sheen]] was referred to as the "first televangelist".<ref>"Bishop Fulton Sheen: The First 'Televangelist'", ''Time Magazine'', Monday, April 14, 1952</ref>