Overview

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 such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups, which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence. Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid technological and social change in various places throughout Africa.

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Author:   Rosalind I. J. Hackett ,  Benjamin F. Soares ,  Francis B. Nyamnjoh ,  Francesco Zappa
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780253015198

ISBN 10:   0253015197
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   21 January 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Foreword Francis B. Nyamnjoh Introduction: New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa Rosalind I. J. Hackett & Benjamin F. Soares Part I. ""Old"" Media: Print and Radio 1. A History of Sauti ya Mvita (""Voice of Mombasa""): Radio, Public Culture, and Islam in Coastal Kenya, 1947-1966 James R. Brennan 2. Between Standardization and Pluralism: The Islamic Printing Market and its Social Spaces in Bamako, Mali Francesco Zappa 3. Binary Islam: Media and Religious Movements in Nigeria Brian Larkin 4. Muslim Community Radio Stations: Constructing and Shaping Identities in a Democratic South Africa Muhammed Haron Part II. New Media and Media Worlds 5. Mediating Transcendence: Popular Film, Visuality, and Religious Experience in West Africa Johannes Merz 6. The Heart of Man: Pentecostalist Emotive Style in and beyond Kinshasa's Media World Katrien Pype 7. Islamic Communication and Mass Media in Cameroon Hamadou Adama 8. ""We Are on the Internet:"" Contemporary Pentecostalism in Africa and the New Culture of Online Religion J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu 9. Conveying Islam: Arab Islamic Satellite Channels as New Players Ehab Galal 10. Religious Discourse in the New Media: A Case Study of Pentecostal Discourse Communities of SMS Users in South-western Nigeria 'Rotimi Taiwo Part III. Arenas of Exchange, Competition, and Conflict 11. Media Afrikania: Styles and Strategies of Representing ""Afrikan Traditional Religion"" in Ghana Marleen de Witte 12. Senwele Jesu: Gospel Music and Religious Publics in Nigeria Vicki L. Brennan 13. Managing Miracles: Ambiguities in the Regulation of Religious Broadcasting in Nigeria Asonzeh Ukah 14. Living across Digital Landscapes: Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and an Indian Guru in Ethiopia Samson A. Bezabeh 15. Zulu Dreamscapes: Senses, Media, and Authentication in Contemporary Neo-shamanism David Chidester List of Contributors Index"

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This collection considers Islam and Christianity, but also African indigenous religions and will be extremely useful to scholars in media studies, religious studies, and African studies, in sociology, political science and anthropology among other disciplines. Robert Launay, Northwestern University

Author Information

Rosalind I. J. Hackett is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is editor of Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa. She is President of the International Association for the History of Religions. Benjamin F. Soares is an anthropologist and Chair of the research staff at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands. He is author of Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town.

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