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Schulz, Dorothea Elisabeth.

Muslims and new media in West Africa : pathways to God / Dorothea E. Schulz. - 1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages) -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

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 religion.

ISBN: 025300554X 9780253005540

Publisher. No.: MWT11529033

Source: 22573/ctt16gmj7r JSTOR

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015903355 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Islam--Africa, West.
Women in Islam--Africa, West.
Islam--Mali.
Women in Islam--Mali.
Islam--Afrique occidentale.
Femmes dans l'islam--Afrique occidentale.
Islam--Mali.
Femmes dans l'islam--Mali.
RELIGION--Islam--General.
Islam
Women in Islam

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
West Africa
Mali

LC Class. No.: BP64.A38 / S38 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 297.082/096623