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Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Outline -- 1. A background -- The audience -- Challenges to the meaning of religion in Iran -- A review of literature -- Media users -- Media and the state -- Audience phantasm -- Media contextualisation -- Religious conversion -- Conversion career -- Rational or irrational choice -- Methodology -- 2. Religion and religiosity -- Introduction -- Section one: Religion or faith -- Religious exclusivism versus inclusivism -- Section two: Change of attitude towards religion in Iran -- Revisiting the concept of apostasy -- Conclusion -- 3. The channels -- Introduction -- An overview of the channels -- Iran Alive Ministries: Network 7 -- Programming -- Mohabat TV -- Programming -- SAT-7 PARS -- Programming -- TBN Nejat TV -- The practice -- Magic bullet -- Non-religion-Christianity -- Conversion of change of religion -- Challenges -- Conclusion -- 4. Participants and the message -- Introduction -- Section one: Church Seven -- Programme description -- Analysis -- Presentation and performance -- Content and interpretations -- Section two: Prayer and Christianity -- Programme description -- Analysis -- Presentation and performance -- Content and interpretations -- Approval or clash -- Blasphemy: Mary Mother of God -- Don't say "hazrat": Don't remind me of my past -- Section three: New faith, new language -- Our experiences influence the way we meet Jesus -- Conclusion -- 5. Route to ready - experimenting -- Section one: An introduction to experimenting, negotiating and resisting -- Section two: Experimentin -- Agenda-based social experimenting -- Christianity as a tool for "Westernisation" -- Persuasive children -- Spiritual experimenting -- Religious shoppers -- Religious visitors -- Migration.