Muslims and new media in West Africa

Schulz, Dorothea Elisabeth.

Muslims and new media in West Africa pathways to God / [electronic resource] : Dorothea E. Schulz. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012 - 1 online resource (xviii, 306 p.) ill.

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.

025300554X (electronic bk.) 9780253005540 (electronic bk.)


Islam--Africa, West.
Women in Islam--Africa, West.
Islam--Mali.
Women in Islam--Mali.
RELIGION / Islam / General


Electronic books.

BP64.A38 / S38 2012

297.082/096623