In the study field of religion and media, the importance of mass media is well recognized for globalizing religions, such as Christianity and Islam, but much less for indigenous African religions. This article aims to fill that lacuna by exploring the media activities of a neo-traditional religious movement in Ghana, the Afrikania Mission. Analyzing Afrikania’s changing position in the public sphere in relation to shifts in Ghana’s political, religious, and media landscapes, I show how new constraints and opportunities have pushed Afrikania to adapt its strategies of accessing the media and its styles of representation. Afrikania’s politics of representation is complicated by its awkward position between the, Christian-dominated public sphe...
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The Catholic Church started in Ghana in the 1500s. The missionaries of this Eurocentric Church prohi...
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This essay discusses the continued importance that religion holds in African life, not only in terms...
The phenomenon of female priesthood, which has been an integral part ofGhanaian and most West Africa...
Since the early 1990s Pentecostal-Charismatic Church membership has grown spectacularly in Africa. S...
This article compares the role of media in three religious movements in Ghana, a country where the m...
Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields....
The Catholic Church started in Ghana in the 1500s. The missionaries of this Eurocentric Church prohi...
The eruption of religious communication in the media stage seems to be one of the major phenomena of...
This article seeks to contribute to a more adequate understanding of the adoption of modern audiovis...
The presentation deals with the circulation and reception of Nigerian films in Kinshasa, which relat...
This Africa-focused study explored the mediatized religious rhetoric of neo-Pentecostalism in Uganda...
In the midst of the proliferation of Christianity and Islam, traditional religious movements struggl...
This article takes a critical look at Ghana's rapidly evolving broadcasting scene and in particular ...
Hinduism fits well into the “sound-filled” West African religious soundscape, which is a scene of co...
National audienceThe Identity Politics of an African Transnational Church. The Church of Pentecost (...
Holders of civilizing values that express their importance to Brazilian society as a whole, this art...
This essay discusses the continued importance that religion holds in African life, not only in terms...
The phenomenon of female priesthood, which has been an integral part ofGhanaian and most West Africa...
Since the early 1990s Pentecostal-Charismatic Church membership has grown spectacularly in Africa. S...