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Muslims and new media in West Africa : pathways to God /

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulz, Dorothea Elisabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Our nation's authentic traditions": law reform and controversies over the common good, 1999-2006
  • Times of hardship: gender relations in a changing urban economy
  • Family conflicts: domestic life revisited by media practices
  • Practicing humanity: social institutions of Islamic moral renewal
  • Alasira, the path to God
  • "Proper believers": mass-mediated constructions of moral community
  • Consuming baraka, debating virtue: new forms of mass-mediated religiosity.