This article compares the role of media in three religious movements in Ghana, a country where the mediascape has undergone fundamental changes since the 1990s. It shows how visual mediation, mobility and the spiritual domain are intertwined, and demonstrates how media evoke both a public and a secret realm, as distinct yet connected spheres. The ethnography documents how this negotiation of public and secret finds itself at the heart of charismatic Pentecostalism, neo-traditional African religion, and traditional spiritual practices - three religions that situate themselves differently in public space but are interrelated and heavily interdependent
An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation has great potential to open up new methods a...
This article deploys the accommodative nature of African Indigenous Religion (AIR) as a reflective t...
If images are life-forms, and objects are the body they animate, then media are the habitats or ecos...
This article seeks to contribute to a more adequate understanding of the adoption of modern audiovis...
Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields....
This article takes a critical look at Ghana's rapidly evolving broadcasting scene and in particular ...
The eruption of religious communication in the media stage seems to be one of the major phenomena of...
In the midst of the proliferation of Christianity and Islam, traditional religious movements struggl...
Media liberalization policies in Ghana and Nigeria has enabled a widespread expansion of Pentecostal...
In the study field of religion and media, the importance of mass media is well recognized for global...
The liberalisation of the Ghanaian media since the 1990s has drastically changed the media landscape...
This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are...
Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. ...
Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. ...
This article explores the sonic sacralization of urban space in the multicultural city of Accra. In ...
An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation has great potential to open up new methods a...
This article deploys the accommodative nature of African Indigenous Religion (AIR) as a reflective t...
If images are life-forms, and objects are the body they animate, then media are the habitats or ecos...
This article seeks to contribute to a more adequate understanding of the adoption of modern audiovis...
Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields....
This article takes a critical look at Ghana's rapidly evolving broadcasting scene and in particular ...
The eruption of religious communication in the media stage seems to be one of the major phenomena of...
In the midst of the proliferation of Christianity and Islam, traditional religious movements struggl...
Media liberalization policies in Ghana and Nigeria has enabled a widespread expansion of Pentecostal...
In the study field of religion and media, the importance of mass media is well recognized for global...
The liberalisation of the Ghanaian media since the 1990s has drastically changed the media landscape...
This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are...
Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. ...
Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. ...
This article explores the sonic sacralization of urban space in the multicultural city of Accra. In ...
An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation has great potential to open up new methods a...
This article deploys the accommodative nature of African Indigenous Religion (AIR) as a reflective t...
If images are life-forms, and objects are the body they animate, then media are the habitats or ecos...