Digital Hinduism (eBook, ePUB)

Dharma and Discourse in the Age of New Media
Redaktion: Balaji, Murali

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume seeks to build a scholarly discourse about how Hinduism is being defined, reformed, and rearticulated in the digital era and how these changes are impacting the way Hindus view their own religious identities. It seeks to interrogate how digital Hinduism has been shaped in response to the dominant framing of the religion, which has often relied on postcolonial narratives devoid of context and an overemphasis on the geopolitics of the Indian subcontinent post-partition. From this perspective, this volume challenges previous frameworks of how Hinduism has been studied, particularly in the West, where Marxist and Orientalist approaches are often ill-fitting paradigms to understanding Hinduism. This volume engages with and critiques some of these approaches while also enriching existing models of research within media studies, ethnography, cultural studies, and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498559188
• Artikelnr.: 50706592

Autorenporträt

Murali Balaji is director of education and curriculum reform for the Hindu American Foundation (HAF).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Digital Paths to the Divine? New Media, Hinduism, and the
Transformation of Dharmic Discourse and Practice, Murali Balaji
Part I
Chapter 1: The Significance of Non-Participatory Digital Religion: The
Saiva Siddhanta Church and the Development of a Global Hinduism, Heinz
Scheifinger
Chapter 2: The Formation of Online Religious Identities: A Case Study of
the Internet-Hindu in India's Cyberspace, Denzil Chetty
Chapter 3: From Newsgroups to #hashtags: Mapping Pattern of Online Hindu
Religious Practices, K.S. Arul Selvan
Part II
Chapter 4: Mirabai Sings on YouTube: The Transmission of a Poet-Saint in
the Age of Digital Devotion, Lakshmi Chandrashekar Subramanian
Chapter 5: Creating Spaces for Progressive Voices in Hinduism: My
Experience with the Queer Hindu Blogosphere, Shikhandi
Part III
Chapter 6: Dharma Deen Alliance: Cyber Resistance and Building Online
Hindu-Muslim Unity, Ravi Grover
Chapter 7: #Hinduphobia: Hate Speech, Bigotry, and Oppression of Hindus
through the Internet, Sachi Edwards
Chapter 8: Digital Divide, Diasporic Identity, and a Spiritual Upgrade,
Charu Uppal
Chapter 9: Digitalizing the Diasporic Subaltern: How Caribbean Hinduism Is
Preserved through the Web, Murali Balaji
Conclusion: Digital Dilemmas and New Paradigms in Digital Dharma, Murali
Balaji