Muslims and new media in West Africa : pathways to God / Dorothea E. Schulz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulz, Dorothea Elisabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Africa, West.

Islam.

Women in Islam--Africa, West.

Women in Islam.

Islam--Mali.

Women in Islam--Mali.

Mali.

West Africa.

Physical Description:

xviii, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are far more publicly engaged than they were in the past. Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, religion and popular culture, women's roles in religion, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

"Our nation's authentic traditions" : law reform and controversies over the common good, 1999-2006

Times of hardship : gender relations in a changing urban economy

Family conflicts : domestic life revisited by media practices

Practicing humanity : social institutions of Islamic moral renewal

Alasira, the path to God

"Proper believers" : mass-mediated constructions of moral community

Consuming baraka, debating virtue : new forms of mass-mediated religiosity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-290) and index.

ISBN:

9780253357151

0253357152

9780253223623

0253223628

9780253005540

025300554X

OCLC:

707212795