Muslims and new media in West Africa
Subtitle: pathways to God
By: Dorothea E. Schulz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780253357151; 9780253223623; 9780253005540
Subjects: Islam; Women in Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Our nation's authentic traditions" : law reform and controversies over the common good, 1999-2006; title: Times of hardship : gender relations in a changing urban economy; title: Family conflicts : domestic life revisited by media practices; title: Practicing humanity : social institutions of Islamic moral renewal; title: Alasira, the path to God; title: "Proper believers" : mass-mediated constructions of moral community; title: Consuming baraka, debating virtue : new forms of mass-mediated religiosity.