Digital Hinduism
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Digital Hinduism

Dharma and Discourse in the Age of New Media

  1. 209 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Digital Hinduism

Dharma and Discourse in the Age of New Media

About this book

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.

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Information

Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781978791268
Edition
1
Subtopic
Hinduism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Digital Hinduism
  3. Digital Hinduism
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I
  8. CONSTRUCTING AN ONLINE HINDU IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY
  9. Chapter 1
  10. The Significance of Non-Participatory Digital Religion
  11. Chapter 2
  12. The Formation of Online Religious Identities
  13. Chapter 3
  14. From Newsgroups to #Hashtags
  15. Part II
  16. DIGITAL HINDUISM IN PRACTICE
  17. Chapter 4
  18. Mirabai Sings on YouTube
  19. Chapter 5
  20. Creating Spaces for Progressive Voices in Hinduism
  21. Part III
  22. DIGITAL HINDU VOICES FROM THE DIASPORA
  23. Chapter 6
  24. Dharma Deen Alliance
  25. Chapter 7
  26. #Hinduphobia
  27. Chapter 8
  28. Digital Divide, Diasporic Identity, and a Spiritual Upgrade
  29. Chapter 9
  30. Digitalizing the Diasporic Subaltern
  31. Conclusion
  32. Index
  33. About the Editor and Contributors