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Digital Hinduism : dharma and discourse in the age of new media / edited by Murali Balaji.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Explorations in Indic traditions: theological, ethical, and philosophicalPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 182 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781498559188
  • 1498559182
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digital Hinduism.DDC classification:
  • 070.4/492945 23
LOC classification:
  • P96.H53
  • P96.H53 D55 2018
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Digital paths to the divine? new media, Hinduism, and the transformation of Dharmic discourse and practice / Murali Balaji -- The significance of non-participatory digital religion : the Saiva Siddhanta Church and the development of a global Hinduism / Heinz Scheifinger -- The formation of online religious identities : a case study of the internet-Hindu in India's cyberspace / Denzil Chetty -- From newsgroups to #hashtags : mapping pattern of online Hindu religious practices / K.S. Arul Selvan -- Mirabai sings on YouTube : the transmission of a poet-saint in the age of digital devotion / Lakshmi Chandrashekar Subramanian -- Creating spaces for progressive voices in Hinduism : my experience with the queer Hindu blogosphere / Shikhandi -- Dharma Deen Alliance : cyber resistance and building online Hindu-Muslim unity / Ravi Grover -- #Hinduphobia : hate speech, bigotry, and oppression of Hindus through the internet / Sachi Edwards -- Digital divide, diasporic identity, and a spiritual upgrade / Charu Uppal -- 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.
Summary: 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 studies, particularly in the West, where Marxist and Orientalist approaches are often ill-fitting paradigms to understanding Hinduism. Digital Hinduism 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1679687

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Digital paths to the divine? new media, Hinduism, and the transformation of Dharmic discourse and practice / Murali Balaji -- The significance of non-participatory digital religion : the Saiva Siddhanta Church and the development of a global Hinduism / Heinz Scheifinger -- The formation of online religious identities : a case study of the internet-Hindu in India's cyberspace / Denzil Chetty -- From newsgroups to #hashtags : mapping pattern of online Hindu religious practices / K.S. Arul Selvan -- Mirabai sings on YouTube : the transmission of a poet-saint in the age of digital devotion / Lakshmi Chandrashekar Subramanian -- Creating spaces for progressive voices in Hinduism : my experience with the queer Hindu blogosphere / Shikhandi -- Dharma Deen Alliance : cyber resistance and building online Hindu-Muslim unity / Ravi Grover -- #Hinduphobia : hate speech, bigotry, and oppression of Hindus through the internet / Sachi Edwards -- Digital divide, diasporic identity, and a spiritual upgrade / Charu Uppal -- 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.

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 studies, particularly in the West, where Marxist and Orientalist approaches are often ill-fitting paradigms to understanding Hinduism. Digital Hinduism engages with and critiques some of these approaches while also enriching existing models of research within media studies, ethnography, cultural studies, and religion.

Description based on print version record.