Item Detail
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29720
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English
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'New Ways of Proselyting' : Radio and Missionary Work in the 1930s
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Go Ye into all the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
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Provo, UT ; Salt Lake City, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU ; Deseret Book Company
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117-150
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"This article will examine how missionaries worked with local radio stations, with limited success. To understand that effort, it will first explore the history of radio in general, the history of religious programs on the radio, the general use of radio by the LDS Church, and local missionary efforts, with a special focus on the Eastern States Mission when James H. Moyle served as mission president in the 1930s. It will then compare the local station efforts with the successful general Church program Music and the Spoken Word and other religious radio programs and discuss reasons why the local radio efforts were less successful. It will show how the current Internet missionary efforts are able to avoid many of the pitfalls that missionaries encountered with radio." [Author]