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Muslims and New Media in West Africa : pathways to God / Dorothea E. Schulz.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.Description: xviii, 306 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780253357151 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780253223623 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780253005540 (electronic book)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.082096623 23 SCH
Contents:
"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-290) 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.

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