...This chapter explores the role of broadcast radio in widening public discourses of Islamic moral renewal in Mali. It considers the debates among Muslims over radio-mediated sermonizing, and especially gender-specific forms of spiritual and moral authority, and links the terms of public debates...

... premised on the separation of church and state. Religious rhetoric is an evolving genre that has its problematic and identity-laden roots in early Puritan sermonizing and Revolutionary pamphleteering. The chapter provides a theoretic framework for how religious rhetoric intensifies the emotions...