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Charismatic/Pentecostal Appropriation of Media Technologies in Nigeria and Ghana

In: Journal of Religion in Africa
Author: Rosalind I.J. Hackett1
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  • 1 ( University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 1998
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CHARISMATIC/PENTECOSTAL APPROPRIATION OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN NIGERIA AND GHANA BY ROSALIND I.J. HACKETT (University of Tennessee, Knoxville.) How do religious collectivities which are predicated on the Word generate images of themselves in the highly competitive religious market- places of many African urban spaces today?' Focusing on the burgeon- ing Christian charismatic and pentecostal movements of Ghana and Nigeria,' I explore how and why these movements are increasingly favoring electronic media as suitable sites for the transmission of their teachings and erecting of their empires. I will show how this process, no more than two decades old, both concurs with and
Title:
Charismatic/Pentecostal Appropriation of Media Technologies in Nigeria and Ghana
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/157006698X00026
Language:
English
Pages:
258–277
In:
Journal of Religion in Africa
In:
Volume 28: Issue 3
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1570-0666
Print ISSN:
0022-4200
Subjects:
Anthropology of Religion, Religious Studies, Religion, African Studies, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion

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