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Throughout history the strong have rationalized their hegemony through universalist ideals, so the parochial universalism of today's Pax Americana is not unique but predictable. Although the current rationalization is secular rather than religious, & the goals are oriented toward this world rather than the next, the zeal, the righteousness, the imagery, & the vocabulary with which this universalism is proclaimed are uncannily evocative of earlier religious evangelisms. The mechanism to effect this hegemony is what I call "democracy jihad," a secular crusade to implement a Western conceptual system amongst the "political heathen," measured by their alleged human rights records. Although reminiscent of the zeal & piousness found in the literature of 19th-century imperialism, the "superior" religious & racial ideology (Christianity & the white man) has been replaced with equally "superior" secular political & social ideology (democracy & human rights). The message may have changed but not the righteous assumptions held by the messenger. Nor is it exclusively the domain of the state, but rather, a "consolidated vision" shared by the public, academia, & the media. Perhaps the most destructive aspect of democratization is that it invariably means decentralization, which, in most non-Western contexts today, encourages social & political anarchy. In countries such as Burma, anarchy is feared far more than tyranny, so that if there exists a genuine desire to promote freedom from that fear, issues important to Burmese society should be addressed, not assumptions concerning the universalism of Western values. Adapted from the source document.

Onecubed is an evangelism television program focused on youth in Indonesia. This program produced by CBN (Cahaya Bagi Negeri) and broadcasted by GlobalTV, an Indonesia television channel. CBN has a vision that this program can effectively evangelized the youth in Indonesia, at the same time, Global TV aims to reach a high rating by broadcasting such programme. In reality, evangelism programme doesn't give much rating. By knowing this information this research made in Van Djik crtitical analition. Based on this information, this research aimed to understand the construction of evangelism television programme by analizing the texts provided in to youth. Related themes during june-juli 2012. Van Dijk critical discourse analysis method is being used to explore the construction structure and its meaning. This findings of the study provide explanations on the formation of youth evangelism programme in Indonesia, that give perspectives to understand media relations (media power) in the context of political economy of media. This study also underlined the importance of youth evangelism television programme as a "serious" programme that can not be underestimated, eventhough its been frawed with entertainment approaches. Keywords: Youth Televangelism in Indonesia, Critical Discourse Analysis, Political Economy of Media, Cahaya Bagi Negri (CBN).

Though the phenomenon of `rebirth' is today often assigned to the category of psychol'al aberration, the fact remains that the overwhelming inner experience which seems to resolve doubts & utterly change the meaning & direction of a man's life has been a decisive force in the history of religion. Today few want to be scorched by this fire of religious conviction. Few want it to burn away their hard-earned security & comfort. Billy Graham offers a solution. You must 'surrender'-- but you may be sure your surrender will never subvert the US values you already cherish. It is a peculiarly American brand of evangelism that Billy Graham offers--an evangelism eager above all to be popular. It seeks the friendship of all pol'al parties, supports all churches, bids for the good will of intellectuals, & refuses to have anything to do with bigotry. It provides a simple answer to all problems, with the assurance that 'surrender' will not affect the convert's status in the community. J. A. Fishman.

Georges Bernanos is established as a great novelist. But today the author of The Stdr of Satan and The Diary of a Country Priest stands as a prophet. The honest, impassioned and radical judgments of A Diary of Our Times and of the recent Plea for Liberty are those of a man who can no longer contain his devotion to people, his profound concern for their souls, within the limits of any art pattern. He must break out, no matter how wonderful his power within the realm of art, and evangelize his convictions more directly. It is common now to see important poets and novelists assuming responsibility for the social salvation of mankind: the mention only of T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann and Sigrid Undset (separated widely in art and outlook, of course, but all united in their criticism of modern civilization and in their hope that justice may finally exist among the men of the earth) will be sufficient verification. This is not a time, it appears, in which the pure speculations and naked truths of philosophers and theologians easily subdue and win minds. For this is a day of the denial of absolutes and the measured thought of formal philosophers and formal religious thinkers, even the most true and sympathetic, has small influence with the multitudes of confused. So poets and artists, out of their more concrete and more attractive, unanalytical handling of experience, rise to speak.

'Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right' by Sara Diamond is reviewed.