Mediating authority: media technologies and the generation of charismatic appeal in southern Mali

This article offers a close analysis of the media performances of a particularly successful preacher in Mali, Sheikh Chérif Haidara, to study how authority is generated in the interaction between a leader and his followers, and to examine the role of mass mediation in this process. Informed by Weber...

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Main Author: Schulz, Dorothea E. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2015]
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-145
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Haïdara, Chérif Ousmane Madane 1965- / Mali (Süd) / Islam / Religious leader / Charisma / Mass media
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
Online Access: Volltext (doi)