Religion, media, and marginality in modern Africa
In recent years, anthropologists, historians, and others have been drawn to study the profuse and creative usages of digital media by religious movements. At the same time, scholars of Christian Africa have long been concerned with the history of textual culture, the politics of Bible translation, a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Religion, media, and marginality in modern Africa / Felicitas Becker and Joel Cabrita
- Part 1. Engagements with state power in the colonial period and beyond.
- Formal care : Islam and bureaucratic paperwork in the Gold Coast/Ghana / Sean Hanretta
- Provincializing representation : East African Islam in the German colonial press / Jørg Haustein
- A tin-trunk Bible : the written word of an oral church / David M. Gordon
- Photography as unveiling : Muslim discourses and practices on the Kenyan coast / Heike Behrend.
- Part 2. Claims to tradition and particular identities in the shadow of the state.
- Vernacular media, Muslim ethics, and "conservative" critiques of power in the Niger Bend, Mali / Bruce S. Hall
- "The angel of the sabbath is the greatest angel of all" : media and the struggle for power and purity in the Shembe church, 2006/12 / Liz Gunner
- Charisma as spectacle : photographs and the construction of a pentecostal urban piety in Nigeria / Asonzeh Ukah.
- Part 3. Religious community building on the margins.
- Nzete Ekauka versus the Catholic church : religious competition, media ban, and the Virgin Mary in contemporary Kinshasa / Katrien Pype
- Exploring youth, media practices, and religious allegiances in contemporary Mali through the controversy over the zikiri / Andrø Chappatte
- Pentecostal charismatic Christianity and social media in South Africa : mitigating marginality, prosperity teachings and the emergence of a black middle class / Maria Frahm-Arp.
