Muslims and New Media in West Africa - Pathways to God

Informationen zum Autor Dorothea E. Schulz is Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. Klappentext Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religion and new media view their public and private selves. Zusammenfassung Deals with gender, religion and the new urban economy Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Overture 1. "Our Nation's Authentic Traditions": Law Reform and Controversies over the Common Good, 1999-2006 2. Times of Hardship: Gender Relations in a Changing Urban Economy 3. Family Conflicts: Domestic Life Revisited by Media Practices 4. Practicing Humanity: Social Institutions of Islamic Moral Renewal 5. Alasira, the Path to God 6. "Proper Believers": Mass-mediated Constructions of Moral Community 7. Consuming Baraka, Debating Virtue: New Forms of Mass-mediated Religiosity Epilogue Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Dorothea E. Schulz, Dorothea Elisabeth Schulz, Schulz Dorothea E
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9780253223623
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22362-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)