Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa.

Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa.

In recent years, anthropologists, historians, and others have been drawn to study the profuse and creative usages of digital media by religious movements. At the same time, scholars of Christian Africa have long been concerned with the history of textual culture, the politics of Bible translation, a...

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Main Author: Becker, Felicitas
Other Authors: Cabrita, Joel, Rodet, Marie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge Centre of African Studies Ser.
Subjects:
Mass media in religion > Africa.
Christianity in mass media.
Islam in mass media.
Digital media > Africa.
Digital media > Religious aspects.
Social media > Africa.
Social media > Religious aspects.
Marginality, Social > Africa.
Marginality, Social > Religious aspects.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christianity in mass media
Digital media
Digital media > Religious aspects
Islam in mass media
Marginality, Social
Marginality, Social > Religious aspects
Mass media in religion
Social media
Social media > Religious aspects
Medien
Social Media
Religion
Islam
Christentum
Africa
Afrika
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa; 1: Formal Care: Islam and Bureaucratic Paperwork in the Gold Coast/Ghana; 2: Provincializing Representation: East African Islam in the German Colonial Press; 3: A Tin-Trunk Bible: The Written Word of an Oral Church; 4: Photography as Unveiling: Muslim Discourses and Practices on the Kenyan Coast; 5: Vernacular Media, Muslim Ethics, and â#x80;#x9C;Conservativeâ#x80;#x9D; Critiques of Power in the Niger Bend, Mali.
  • 6: â#x80;#x9C;The Angel of the Sabbath Is the Greatest Angel of Allâ#x80;#x9D;: Media and the Struggle for Power and Purity in the Shembe Church, 2006â#x80;#x93;127: Charisma as Spectacle: Photographs and the Construction of a Pentecostal Urban Piety in Nigeria; 8: Nzete Ekauka versus the Catholic Church: Religious Competition, Media Ban, and the Virgin Mary in Contemporary Kinshasa; 9: Exploring Youth, Media Practices, and Religious Allegiances in Contemporary Mali through the Controversy over the Zikiri.
  • 10: Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity and Social Media in South Africa: Mitigating Marginality, Prosperity Teachings, and the Emergence of a Black Middle ClassBibliography; Contributors; Index.

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