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Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
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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, and the status of the vernacular in Christianity. Students of Islam in Africa have similarly examined politics of knowledge, the transmission of learning in written form, and the influence of new media. Until now, however, these arenas—Christianity and Islam, digital media and “old” media—have been studied separately.
Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondences among different media and between the two faiths. In the process they challenge the technological determinism—the notion that certain types of media generate particular forms of religious expression—that haunts many studies. In evaluating how media usage and religious commitment intersect in the social, cultural, and political landscapes of modern Africa, this collection will contribute to the development of new paradigms for media and religious studies.
Contributors: Heike Behrend, Andre Chappatte, Maria Frahm-Arp, David Gordon, Liz Gunner, Bruce S. Hall, Sean Hanretta, Jorg Haustein, Katrien Pype, and Asonzeh Ukah.
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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa © 2018 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NCND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Language
eng
ISBN
9780821446249
Publication Date
2-2-2018
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Keywords
Religion in Africa, modern Africa, Christianity, Islam, digital media, print culture, textual traditions, Bible translation, vernacular language, Islamic scholarship, media and religion, comparative religion, technological determinism, knowledge transmission, marginality, anthropology of religion, history of religion, Heike Behrend, Andre Chappatte, Maria Frahm-Arp, David Gordon, Liz Gunner, Bruce S. Hall, Sean Hanretta, Jorg Haustein, Katrien Pype, Asonzeh Ukah
Disciplines
African History | African Studies | Christianity | Film and Media Studies | Islamic Studies | Sociology of Religion
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Recommended Citation
Becker, Felicitas; Cabrita, Joel; and Rodet, Marie, "Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa" (2018). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 113.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/113
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