ABSTRACT
This chapter is the book’s formal introduction. It opens with a short ethnographic scene to immerse and engage the readers, followed by a short analysis and then a description of the book’s structure, main themes, and agendas. The second part of this chapter serves as a literature review by dividing the book into three main theoretical frameworks: privacy studies (a concise inter-disciplinary review of privacy studies across sociology, psychology, and anthropology), digital anthropology (introduction to this unique sub-discipline, its main contribution to internet studies, and its strong relation to material culture), and the anthropology of Christianity (a detailed overview of Pentecostal reformation in Africa and its effect on privacy). The aim of this chapter is to provide a theoretical foundation for the rest of the book and introduce its field shortly.
