New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa /
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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Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


