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PriceGrabber.com When televangelists entered the mainstream in the 1980s, they had a tremendous impact on American culture as well as the wider public perception of Christianity. This was not the fist time religion appeared on television, but it was the beginning of evangelistic revivalism broadcast across the nation and around the world. Neither their methods nor their acts were entirely original - they can in large part be traced back to Billy Sunday.
Book of the Week: Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism
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