ISBN:
9780253005540
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 306 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schulz, Dorothea E. Muslims and new media in West Africa
DDC:
297.082
Keywords:
Women in Islam - Mali
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Westafrika
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Islam
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Neue Medien
Abstract:
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 religion
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Overture; ONE "Our Nation's Authentic Traditions": Law Reform and Controversies over the Common Good, 1999-2006; TWO Times of Hardship: Gender Relations in a Changing Urban Economy; THREE Family Conflicts: Domestic Life Revisited by Media Practices; FOUR Practicing Humanity: Social Institutions of Islamic Moral Renewal; FIVE Alasira, the Path to God; SIX "Proper Believers": Mass-mediated Constructions of Moral Community; SEVEN Consuming Baraka, Debating Virtue: New Forms of Mass-mediated Religiosity; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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