New media and religious transformations in Africa /edited by Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Benjamin F. Soares ; foreword by Francis B. Nyamnjoh. - Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: New media and religious transformations in Africa / A history of Sauti ya Mvita ("Voice of Mombasa"): radio, public culture, and Islam in coastal Kenya, 1947-1966 / Between standardization and pluralism: the Islamic printing market and its social spaces in Bamako, Mali / Binary Islam: media and religious movements in Nigeria / Muslim community radio stations: constructing and shaping identities in a democratic South Africa / Mediating transcendence: popular film, visuality, and religious experience in West Africa / The heart of man: Pentecostalist emotive style in and beyond Kinshasa's media world / Islamic communication and mass media in Cameroon / "We are on the Internet": contemporary Pentecostalism in Africa and the new culture of online religion / Conveying Islam: Arab Islamic satellite channels as new players / Religious discourse in the new media: a case study of Pentecostal discourse communities of SMS users in south-western Nigeria / Media Afrikania: styles and strategies of representing "Afrikan traditional religion" in Ghana / Enwele Jesu: gospel music and religious publics in Nigeria / Managing miracles: ambiguities in the regulation of religious broadcasting in Nigeria / Living across digital landscapes: Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and an Indian guru in Ethiopia / Zulu dreamscapes: senses, media, and authentication in contemporary neo-Shamanism / Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Benjamin F. Soares -- James R. Brennan -- Francesco Zappa -- Brian Larkin -- Muhammed Haron -- Johannes Merz -- Katrien Pype -- Hamadou Adama -- J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Ehab Galal -- [ayn]Rotimi Taiwo -- Marleen de Witte -- Vicki L. Brennan -- Asonzeh Ukah -- Samson A. Bezabeh -- David Chidester.



9780253015303


Mass media in religion--Africa.
Social media--Religious aspects.
Social media--Africa.


Electronic Books.

BL2400 / .N496 2015