TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balaji,Murali
TI  - Digital Hinduism: dharma and discourse in the age of new media 
T2  - Explorations in Indic traditions: theological, ethical, and philosophical
SN  - 9781498559188
AV  - P96.H53 
U1  - 070.4/492945 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
KW  - Hinduism in mass media
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Hindouisme dans les médias
KW  - Hindouisme
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Journalism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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