Dorothea E Schulz

Muslims and New Media in West Africa

Pathways to God

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780253357151
• ISBN-10: 0253357152
• Artikelnr.: 33608968

Autorenporträt

Dorothea E. Schulz is Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Inhaltsangabe

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