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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788387503321

Autore

Schulz Dorothea Elisabeth

Titolo

Muslims and new media in West Africa [[electronic resource] ] : pathways to God / / Dorothea E. Schulz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, : Indiana University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-12437-7

9786613528230

0-253-00554-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

297.082/096623

Soggetti

Islam - Africa, West

Women in Islam - Africa, West

Islam - Mali

Women in Islam - Mali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 religi