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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religi

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613528230

9781280124372

1280124377

9780253005540

025300554X

OCLC:

775866840