New media and religious transformations in Africa

New media and religious transformations in Africa / edited by Rosalind I.J. Hackett and Benjamin F. Soares ; foreword by Francis B. Nyamnjoh.

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated suc...

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Other Authors: Hackett, Rosalind I. J. (Editor), Soares, Benjamin F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Mass media in religion > Africa.
Social media > Religious aspects.
Social media > Africa.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
RELIGION > Religion, Politics & State.
Mass media in religion
Religion
Social media
Social media > Religious aspects
Médias et religion > Afrique.
Médias sociaux > Aspect religieux > Afrique.
Africa > Religion > 21st century.
Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: New media and religious transformations in Africa / Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Benjamin F. Soares
  • Part 1. "Old" media : print and radio
  • A history of Sauti ya Mvita ("Voice of Mombasa") : radio, public culture, and Islam in coastal Kenya, 1947-1966 / James R. Brennan
  • Between standardization and pluralism : the Islamic printing market and its social spaces in Bamako, Mali / Francesco Zappa
  • Binary Islam : media and religious movements in Nigeria / Brian Larkin
  • Muslim community radio stations : constructing and shaping identities in a democratic South Africa / Muhammed Haron
  • Part 2. New media and media worlds
  • Mediating transcendence : popular film, visuality, and religious experience in West Africa / Johannes Merz
  • The heart of man : Pentecostalist emotive style in and beyond Kinshasa's media world / Katrien Pype
  • Islamic communication and mass media in Cameroon / Hamadou Adama
  • We are on the Internet : contemporary Pentecostalism in Africa and the new culture of online religion / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
  • Conveying Islam : Arab Islamic satellite channels as new players / Ehab Galal
  • Religious discourse in the new media : a case study of Pentecostal discourse communities of SMS users in south-western Nigeria / [ayn]Rotimi Taiwo
  • Part 3. Arenas of exchange, competition, and conflict
  • Media Afrikania : styles and strategies of representing "Afrikan traditional religion" in Ghana / Marleen de Witte
  • Enwele Jesu : gospel music and religious publics in Nigeria / Vicki L. Brennan
  • Managing miracles : ambiguities in the regulation of religious broadcasting in Nigeria / Asonzeh Ukah
  • Living across digital landscapes : Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and an Indian guru in Ethiopia / Samson A. Bezabeh
  • Zulu dreamscapes : senses, media, and authentication in contemporary neo-Shamanism / David Chidester.

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