Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to GodAlthough 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 religion and new media view their public and private selves. |
Other editions - View all
Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God Dorothea Elisabeth Schulz Limited preview - 2012 |
Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God Dorothea Elisabeth Schulz Limited preview - 2012 |
Common terms and phrases
actors AMUPI Ansar Dine Arabic Arabic literacy articulate Bamako Bamana Bintou Brenner broadcast chap claim colonial Comaroff consumers consumption contemporary conventional critical culture debate discourse dress economic Eickelman ethical experience FCFA female forms French Sudan gender God’s Habermas’s Hadja Haidara’s historical husband important individual institutions intellectual interpretation Islam in Mali Islamic moral renewal Islamic renewal laïcité listening male Mali’s Malian maloya mass-mediated media engagements media technologies men’s moral reform movement Moussa Traoré Muslim activists Muslim associations Muslim women’s groups Muslim world neoliberal networks norms one’s orthopraxy participants particular people’s political position preachers PRODEJ Qur’anic radio reflect reformist relations relevance religion religious practice renewal movement ritual role Saudi Arabia Schulz Segou Senegal sermon tapes significance soap operas social society specific spiritual structures Sufi supporters of Islamic telenovelas television traditions transformation transnational Triaud UNAFEM understanding urban Mali West Africa woman women