Mouvement interreligieux et usages d’Internet au Burkina Faso. Le cas de l’Union fraternelle des croyants (UFC) de Dori

Abstract

The coming of the Internet causes evolutions in the relation to media of religious communities. There is an external will of visibility thanks to the use of Internet as a means of communication and as a mode of presence. On the basis of the example of the Fraternal Union of Believers of Dori in Burkina Faso, our contribution analyses the appropriation of Internet by interreligious actors to come out of their isolation and to play the role of religious peacemaker in the world. The case of UFC shows that if religious people appropriate the Web, the interreligious movement can be mobilized to promote social and political objectives in African public spheres.