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62 AASR Bulletin 35 (November 2011) www.a-asr.org Walls, Andrew F., 2011, ‘Towards a Theology of Migration’, in Ludwig & Asamoah-Gyadu 2011: 407-418 Witte, Marleen, 2011, ‘Business of the Spirit: Ghanaian Broadcast Media and the Commercial Exploitation of Pentecostalism’, in Journal of African Media Studies 3, 2: 189-205 [This article takes a critical look at Ghana’s rapidly evolving broadcasting scene and in particular at the expansion and popularity of religious broadcasting. Sketching the developments of the Ghanaian media landscape, it analyses the changing politics of representing religion in this field. The much-celebrated processes of media deregulation and democratization, and the new opportunities for ownership, production, and participation they entail, have led to a dominance of Pentecostalism in the public sphere. While this development has been analysed from the perspective of churches and pastors, this article explores the intertwinement of commercial media and Pentecostalism from the perspective of a number of private media owners and producers in Accra. Whether these media entrepreneurs are themselves Pentecostal or not, they all have to deal with, and commercially exploit, the power and attraction of Pentecostalism. Their experience that commercial success is hardly possible without Pentecostalism makes clear that the influence of Pentecostalism in the Ghanaian public sphere reaches way beyond media-active pastors and born-again media practitioners, and invites us to rethink the relationship between media, business and religion.] Witte, Marleen, 2011, ‘Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture’, in Jindra & Noret 2011c: 177-206 Woldemikael, Tekle, & Mesghina G. Medhin 2011, ‘An Exploration into the Religious Life of Eritrean Immigrants in the United States of America’, in Ludwig & Asamoah-Gyadu 2011: 137- 152 Wood, Felicity, 2008, ‘The Occult, the Erotic and Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Oral Accounts of ukuthwala, Wealth-giving Magic, Sold by the Medicine Man Khotso Sethuntsa’, in Alternation: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa 15, 1; full text at: http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/docs/15.1/16%20Wood.pdf [This study examines the way in which the economic, the erotic and the supernatural are brought together in the practice of ukuthwala, the Xhosa term for a dangerous, powerful procedure for long-term wealth, widely believed to involve the ownership of a wealth-giving being, the mamlambo, which bestows wealth upon its owner. However, the mamlambo’s owner is required to sustain the ukuthwala pact with sacrifices that come at a great personal and moral cost. The word mamlambo derives from the Xhosa for river, mlambo. Because u-Ma- Mlambo, her full name in Xhosa, resides in deep water, she is known as ‘the mother of the river’. The mamlambo is a shape-changer, who is most often envisaged as a snake, a mermaid or a seductive woman. This study examines the genesis of the mamlambo, and discusses why the practice of ukuthwala has become widespread in southern Africa.] Wyk, Ilana van, 2011, 'Believing Practically and Trusting Socially in Africa: The Contrary Case of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Durban, South Africa', in Englund 2011: 189- 203 >
AASR BULLETIN 35 (NOVEMBER 2011) www.a-asr.org 63 Assistant Webmaster: Dr. Jan G. Platvoet, Gildenring 52, 3981 JG Bunnik, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 (30) 656.2680 E-mail: jgplatvoet@hetnet.nl. Webpage: http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=162 Bulletin Editor: Prof. Matthews A. Ojo, Dept of Religious Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. Phone +234 (805) 230 4158, or +234 (803) 471 4487 E-mail: matthews_ojo@yahoo.com . Webpage: matthews_ojo@yahoo.com Bulletin Editor: Dr. Lovemore Togarasei, Dept. of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Botswana, PO Box 0022, Gaborone, Botswana. Phone: +267 712.22.- 543; Fax: +267.318.5098. E-mail: ltogarasei@yahoo.com . Webpage: http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=323 Publications Officer: Dr. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Vice President, Professor, Trinity Theological Seminary, P.O. Box 48, Legon, Accra, Ghana. Phone: +233-21- 500541 (office) +233-20-8151936 (Cell). E-mail: asagyadu@hotmail.com Webpage: http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=451 REGIONAL REPRESENATIVES East Africa: Dr. Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Lecturer, Dept of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Egerton University, PO Box 536, Njoro, Kenya. Phone: +254 722 281 426; cell phone: +254- 722-281-426; E-mail: damarisseleina@yahoo.com . Webpage: http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=404 Southern Africa: Prof. Pratap Kumar, School of Religion & Theology, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa. Phone: +27.31-563-8966 (home); +27.31-260-7539 (office); Fax: +27.31-260-7286 E-mail: penumalap@ukzn.ac.za Webpages: http://www.sorat.ukzn.ac.za/religion/kumar.doc http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=415 West Africa: Dr. David O. Ogungbile, Senior Lecturer, Depr of Religious Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U.), P. O. Box 1950, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria 220005. Phone: +234 (0) 703.371.8844; +234 (0) 807.072.1710; Fax: +234.857 928.7724. E-mail: dogungbile1@yahoo.com;. Webpages: http://ogungbile.net/index.html ; http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=362 Europe: Prof. Frans Wijsen, Dept. of Religious Studies, Radboud University, Postbus 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 (24) 361.2489; Fax: +31 (24) 361.1802 E-mail: F.Wijsen@rs.ru.nl . Webpages: http://www.ru.nl/onderzoek/kennisbank/profiel/toon_profielrbsid=102681&frm=kennisbank http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=478 North America: Dr. Lilian Dube, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theology & Religious Studies, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117, USA. Phone: (415) 422-5031 Fax: (415) 422-5356. Email: ldube@usfca.edu. Webpages: http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/fac_staff/D/dube_lilian.html http://www.a-asr.org/index.phpid=463
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