Media And The Transformation Of Religion In South Asia
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Author | : Lawrence A. Babb |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 151280018X |
This volume explores the effects of the religious transformation taking place in India as sacred symbols assume the shapes of media images. Lifted from their traditional forms and contexts, many religious symbols, beliefs, and practices are increasingly refracted through such media as god posters, comic books, audio recordings, and video programs. The ten original essays here examine the impact on India's traditional social and cultural structures of printed images, audio recordings, film, and video. Contributors: Lawrence A. Babb, Steve Derné, John Stratton Hawley, Stephen R. Inglis, John T. Little, Philip Lutgendorf, Scott L. Marcus, Frances W. Pritchett, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, H. Daniel Smith, and Susan S. Wadley.
Author | : Sahana Udupa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351972200 |
The dramatic expansion of the media and communications sector since the 1990s has brought South Asia on the global scene as a major center for media production and consumption. This book is the first overview of media expansion and its political ramifications in South Asia during these years of economic reforms. From the puzzling liberalization of media under military dictatorship in Pakistan to the brutal killings of journalists in Sri Lanka, and the growing influence of social media in riots and political protests in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the chapters analyse some of the most important developments in the media fields of contemporary South Asia. Attentive to colonial histories as well as connections within and beyond South Asia in the age of globalization, the chapters combine theoretically grounded studies with original empirical research to unravel the dynamics of media as politics. The chapters are organized around the three frames of participation, control and friction. They bring to the fore the double edged nature of publicity and containment inherent in media, thereby advancing postcolonial perspectives on the massive media transformation underway in South Asia and the global South more broadly. For the first time bringing together the cultural, regulatory and social aspects of media expansion in a single perspective, this interdisciplinary book fills the need for overview and analytical studies on South Asian media.
Author | : Kerstin Radde-Antweiler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351691414 |
This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the data collected in light of current mediatization theories. By directing the study to the geographical, cultural and religious contexts specific to Asia, it also provides new material for the theoretical discussion of the pros and cons of the concept mediatization, among other things interrogating whether this concept is useful in non-’Western’ contexts."
Author | : Karen Pechilis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0415448514 |
This valuable resource explores the important role which the minority traditions play in the religious life of the subcontinent.
Author | : Christopher Harding |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199548226 |
Exploring the phenomenon of mass conversion to Christianity amongst oppressed rural peoples in late colonial India, Religious Transformation in South Asia looks at what lay behind the social and religious aspirations of converts and mission personnel.
Author | : Hent de Vries |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804734974 |
Counter The twenty-five contributors to this volume - who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel - confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media. The book's introductory section offers a prolegomenon to the multiple problems raised by an interdisciplinary approach to these multifaceted phenomena. The essays in the following part provide exemplary approaches to the historical and systematic background to the study of religion and media. The third part presents case studies by anthropologists and scholars of comparative religion. The book concludes with two remarkable documents: a chapter from Theodor W. Adorno's study of the relationship between religion and media in the context of political agitation (The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas's Radio Addresses) and a section from Niklas Luhmann's monumental Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (Society as a Social System).
Author | : Jacqueline Suthren Hirst |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136626689 |
This book offers a fresh approach to the study of religion in modern South Asia. It uses a series of case studies to explore the development of religious ideas and practices, giving students an understanding of the social, political and historical context.
Author | : James Ponniah |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506439934 |
Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement. It considers how these processes are reflected in rituals, beliefs and social practices. It explores the processes by which "home" may be constructed and how relocations often result in either the replication or rejection of traditional homes and identities. Ponniah examines the various contestations surrounding the categories of "home" and "religion," including interfaith families, urban spaces, and sacred places.
Author | : Bardwell L. Smith |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004045101 |
Author | : Imran Ahmed |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-02-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9811668477 |
This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large. The book is distinctive in-so-far as it reexamines conventional wisdom held about religious extremism in South Asia and departs from the literature which centres its analyses on Islamic militancy based on the questions and assumptions of the West’s ‘war on terror’. This volume also offers a comprehensive analysis of new extremist movements and how their emergence and success places existing theoretical frameworks in the study of religious extremism into question. It further examines topical issues including the study of social media and its impact on the evolution and operation of violent extremism. The book also analyses grassroots and innovative non-state initiatives aimed to counter extremist ideologies. Through case studies focusing on Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this collection examines extremist materials, methods of political mobilisation and recruitment processes and maps the interconnected nature of sociological change with the ideological transformations of extremist movements.