Dorothea Schulz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothea Schulz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothea |
| FAMILY NAME | Schulz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of CologneGermany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Validating Prophethood
In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for a systematic analysis of processes of “authorization” by which religious leaders gain authority and recognition, both in the eyes of their followers and of a broader public. Our analysis starts from the assumption that if we wish to understand the role of media technologies in the process by which followers confer religious authority to a leader, we need to consider the material and social co…
Africanist Anthropology
A pervasive concern of Africanist anthropology since the 1970s has been to dispel the legacy of the discipline’s association with European colonialism. Since the middle of the 1980s, Africanist scholarship branched out into several directions while seeking to elucidate the historical processes that define Africa’s place in the world. Early in the 1990s, debates in Africanist anthropology came to center on the notion of modernity. Studies on relig…
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a h…
Introduction
At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, …
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa
Politics of Religious Schooling
In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations-Christian as well as Muslim-have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The…
Dis/Embodying Authority
This article explores how the introduction of sound reproduction technologies inflects what were previously considered authoritative, standardized, and gender-specific forms of religious leadership and how these changes affect in turn the (gendered) subjects of media practice. Examining the recent, controversial public presence of female radio preachers in Mali, the article elucidates the often ambivalent reactions to their radio-mediated dissoci…
Introduction to Special Issue
Renewal and Enlightenment
The article takes Muslim women’s biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for ‘closeness to God’. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for themselves, it is argued, brings insights into their particular conception of collective and personal renewal and, by implication, into the particular …
Charisma and Brotherhood' Revisited
The case study of the Muslim movement Ansar Dine and its charismatic leader Sharif Haidara illustrates that the debate on, and public significance of, Islam has been shifting in recent years and how broadcast media played into this process. Haidara's extensive use of (mostly aural) media allows him to combine traditional elements of religious authority with new credentials. His public prominence and success suggests that broadcasting contributes …
Charisma and Brotherhood' Revisited
The case study of the Muslim movement Ansar Dine and its charismatic leader Sharif Haidara illustrates that the debate on, and public significance of, Islam has been shifting in recent years and how broadcast media played into this process. Haidara's extensive use of (mostly aural) media allows him to combine traditional elements of religious authority with new credentials. His public prominence and success suggests that broadcasting contributes …
Dis/Embodying Authority
This article explores how the introduction of sound reproduction technologies inflects what were previously considered authoritative, standardized, and gender-specific forms of religious leadership and how these changes affect in turn the (gendered) subjects of media practice. Examining the recent, controversial public presence of female radio preachers in Mali, the article elucidates the often ambivalent reactions to their radio-mediated dissoci…
Renewal and Enlightenment
The article takes Muslim women’s biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for ‘closeness to God’. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for themselves, it is argued, brings insights into their particular conception of collective and personal renewal and, by implication, into the particular …
Politics of Religious Schooling
In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations-Christian as well as Muslim-have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The…
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction
At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, …
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a h…
Charisma and Brotherhood' Revisited
The case study of the Muslim movement Ansar Dine and its charismatic leader Sharif Haidara illustrates that the debate on, and public significance of, Islam has been shifting in recent years and how broadcast media played into this process. Haidara's extensive use of (mostly aural) media allows him to combine traditional elements of religious authority with new credentials. His public prominence and success suggests that broadcasting contributes …
Renewal and Enlightenment
The article takes Muslim women’s biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for ‘closeness to God’. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for themselves, it is argued, brings insights into their particular conception of collective and personal renewal and, by implication, into the particular …
Dis/Embodying Authority
This article explores how the introduction of sound reproduction technologies inflects what were previously considered authoritative, standardized, and gender-specific forms of religious leadership and how these changes affect in turn the (gendered) subjects of media practice. Examining the recent, controversial public presence of female radio preachers in Mali, the article elucidates the often ambivalent reactions to their radio-mediated dissoci…
Introduction to Special Issue
Politics of Religious Schooling
In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations-Christian as well as Muslim-have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The…
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa
Introduction
At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, …
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a h…
Africanist Anthropology
A pervasive concern of Africanist anthropology since the 1970s has been to dispel the legacy of the discipline’s association with European colonialism. Since the middle of the 1980s, Africanist scholarship branched out into several directions while seeking to elucidate the historical processes that define Africa’s place in the world. Early in the 1990s, debates in Africanist anthropology came to center on the notion of modernity. Studies on relig…
Validating Prophethood
In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for a systematic analysis of processes of “authorization” by which religious leaders gain authority and recognition, both in the eyes of their followers and of a broader public. Our analysis starts from the assumption that if we wish to understand the role of media technologies in the process by which followers confer religious authority to a leader, we need to consider the material and social co…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)