America 1960-1969: Religion Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 55 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.

America 1960-1969: Religion Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 55 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.
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Early Career.

Oral Roberts began his evangelistic career in 947, after a brief ministry with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. At he beginning his primary emphasis was on healing services, and he attracted huge crowds in the 1950s with his tent revivals. His largest tent could seat 12,500. He soon recognized the usefulness of radio, eventually having over three hundred radio stations in the United States carrying his messages and shortwave radio beaming his program to the rest of the world. Most Americans outside Pentecostal circles grew familiar with him through the television programs he began in the mid 1950s, edited from his tent revivals. Many jeered at the healing lines he still used and scoffed at the "prayer cloths," pieces of cloth two and a half inches by five inches that he said he personally prayed over. He did not charge for these prayer...

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