Rosalind I. J. Hackett

New religious movements in Nigeria

This collection of essays focuses particularly on new religions that have emerged in Nigeria in the period of diversification and change that has elapsed since the civil war of 1967-1970.

Religion and the Internet

Emergent scholarship on the most radical technological invention of our time confirms what most of us know from first-hand experience – that the internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions and our knowledge, as well as our sense of subjectivity, community and agency (see, e.g., Vries, 2002: 19). The American scholar of religion and communications Stephen O’Leary, one of the first scholars to analyze the role of the new media for religious communities, claims that the advent of the internet has been as revolutionary for religious growth and dissemination as was the invention of the printing press (O’Leary, 1996). In the present essay, I consider the transformations of both religion, and by extension scholarship on religion, occasioned by computer-mediated communication (CMC) and information. I lay out a basic framework for analyzing the multifunctionality of the internet with regard to religion. I also briefly address the multidisciplinarity required to comprehend this multi-dimensional technological revolution. My primary focus is religious uses (Lawrence, 2000), but some reference is also made to religious perceptions of this new medium. In my broader research, I am particularly interested in some of the latest forms of internet applications by religious individuals and organizations, and their consequence for inter-religious conflict or harmony in what sociologist Manuel Castells calls our ‘global network society’ (Castells, 1997; Hackett, 2003, 2005).2 The information technology revolution and the restructuring of late capitalist economies have generated this new form of society. But as to whether the internet is predominantly utopian or dystopian is hard to discern, and conclusions may be determined by one’s own interests and vantage-point.

The Academic Study of Religion in Nigeria

This article examines the ways in which the academic study of religion has developed in the Nigerian context, notably at the hands of its own scholars. The distinctive identity of the subject in Nigeria and its contribution to the field in general are highlighted, as well as some of the problems and advantages of teaching Religious Studies in a developing country.

Theory of social involvement : a case study in the anthropology of religion, state, and society

The Assemblies of God in Nigeria: Spirituality and Socio-Political Realities The Prophetic Movement and the Nation of Israel in the Old Testament The Prophetic Dimension and the Wholistic Church in the New Testament Socio-Political Problems Facing Nigeria: 1960 to the Present A Cultural Analysis of the Problem Areas in the Nigerian Democracy The Churchs Prophetic Role in Nigeria Agenda for the Future

Resonating with Sensational Movies

The review extols the merits of Birgit Meyer’s groundbreaking study of film and religion in Ghana as a model for future research on lived and public religion in diverse African settings. It also offers a critique of the book’s relative inattention to the sound effects of these popular video films, suggesting that there are resonant affinities between aural media, regimes of audibility, and the affective presence of the spiritual ‘beyond.’

Introduction: A ‘Curvature of Social Space’

It is by now almost a commonplace to state that there can be no such thing as an ultimate neutrality of the public sphere, that any formal definition of citizen and subject, any procedural approach to justice and the common good, must account for the inflection—the constitutive impurity, materiality, and ultimate undecidability—of all individual and collective action: again, ‘a curvature of social space’. (Vries 2001, 9)

Interview: Rosalind Hackett reflects on religious media in Africa

In October 2013, the editors of this special issue conducted an interview with Rosalind Hackett, one of the pioneering scholars in the field of media and religion. The interview took place via email and consisted of five questions that address the discussion in this special issue of Social Compass and attempt to look into the future of religion and technology studies. As African societies and their media production and reception are transforming at a high pace, the interview offers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with what, according to one of the pioneers in this exciting field, are the weaknesses, challenges and future themes in the study of religious mediation and mediatization.

Report On the Vi Latin American Congress On Religion and Ethnicity and the Meeting of the Colombian Institute for the Study of Religion June 10-14, 1996

Bogota, Colombia, provided the venue for the first of the biennial congresses of the Asociacion Latinoamericana para el Estudio de las Religiones (Latin American Association for the Study of Religions) to be held outside Mexico. The Colombian Institute of Anthropology was our host for a most enjoyable and productive conference. The meetings were held in the very attractive, modern Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in the oldest part of Bogota, known as the Candelaria. It was a pleasure to stroll out at lunchtime and sample the excellent Afro-Colombian fish restaurants in the neighborhood and watch the crowds milling around, occasionally protesting, in the Bolivar Square in front of the Presidential Palace and Cathedral.

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