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Roberts, Oral
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Oral Roberts American evangelist Oral Roberts (born 1918) was an early pioneer in televangelism, or using...wrote in Time magazine. Early Years He was born Granville Oral Roberts on January 24, 1918, in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, near...
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Tulsa: Education and Research
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...are the University of Tulsa (enrollment 4,072), Oral Roberts University (enrollment 5,700), and Oklahoma Wesleyan...general studies, elementary education, and nursing. Oral Roberts University is a Christian-centered liberal arts college...
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Televangelism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Pentecostal and divine healing emphases of Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral Roberts, and Ernest Angley; the positive‐thinking...was caught in several dalliances with prostitutes, and Roberts declared that God would “take him home...
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Pentecostalism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...War II a pan‐Pentecostal revival erupted, spawning a generation of independent evangelists, including Oral Roberts (1918– ) and Jimmy Swaggart (1935– ). These preachers, along with ecumenically minded Pentecostal...
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Anita Hill
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...related stomach problems, she left Washington to accept a position as a professor in the area of civil rights at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. As a faculty member of this conservative religious school, Hill took an oath that said in part...
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Revivals
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...culminating with the explosion of television evangelists in the politically conservative 1980s. Televangelists such as Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggert, Jerry Falwell, and Jim and Tammy Bakker reached huge audiences through broadcast...
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Hill, Anita Faye
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...anymore.'" — Anita Hill In 1983, Hill decided to leave Washington, D.C., to became a law professor at Oral Roberts University. In 1986, she accepted a teaching position at the University of Oklahoma. Although full professorship...
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Tulsa
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...manufacturing Unemployment rate: 4.2% (December 2004) Per Capita Income: $21,534 (1999) 2002 FBI Crime Index Total: 30,119 Major Colleges and Universities: University of Tulsa, Oral Roberts University Daily Newspaper: Tulsa World
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Tulsa: Recreation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...Airlines Maintenance Engineering Base, which overhauls and repairs aircraft. Sight-seers may also tour the campus of Oral Roberts University with its unique Prayer Tower. Arts and Culture Long known as a cultural center and leading the state in...
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Oklahoma
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Oklahoma State Univ., at Stillwater; the Univ. of Oklahoma, at Norman and Oklahoma City; and the Univ. of Tulsa and Oral Roberts Univ., at Tulsa. History The Native American Heritage Oklahoma's Native American population is the largest in the...
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