Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa
Felicitas Becker, "Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa "
English | ISBN: 0821423037 | 2018 | 330 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0821423037 | 2018 | 330 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
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.
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