Digital Hinduism

Murali Balaji

doi:10.5771/9781498559188

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 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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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5917-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5918-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 182
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Digital Religion And Digital Hinduism No access
  3. In Defense Of An Unfashionable Heuristic Tool: Online Religion/religion Online No access
  4. Methodology: The Prevalence Of Non-participatory Digital Hinduism No access
  5. The Saiva Siddhanta Church No access
  6. The Ssc And Its Online Presence No access
  7. The Ssc’s Influence Within Hinduism No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. References No access
  11. Cited Websites No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Current Trends In Virtual Communities And Identity Discourses No access
  3. An Adaptation Of Castells’s Communication Theory As A Framework For Analyzing Religious Identity And Communication In Cyberspace No access
  4. A Case Study Of The Internethindu In India’s Cyberspace No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Religion And The Internet No access
  2. Findings And Analysis—alt.religion.hindu No access
  3. Support And Spewing: Arh No access
  4. Findings And Analysis: #hinduism No access
  5. Political-religious Discussion No access
  6. Sharing Controversy No access
  7. Spam No access
  8. Analysis And Interpretation No access
  9. Comparison Of News Group Vs #hashtag No access
  10. References No access
1. 1. Understanding Mira Through Her Poetry No access
  2. Beyond The Written Word: Performance And Practice No access
  3. A Case Study No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Works Cited No access
2. 1. Framing A Discursive Queer Hindu (cyber)space No access
  2. My Experience With Blogging No access
  3. The Relationship Between Religion And Sexuality No access
  4. Blogging About Religion No access
  5. Building An Online Forum For Discussion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Works Cited No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Politicizing And Sensationalizing Religion Tensions No access
  3. What We Created—website, Fb, Twitter: Branching Out To Other Forms Of Social Media No access
  4. Spreading The Word No access
  5. Challenges To Our Website No access
  6. Conclusion: Global Support For Interfaith Work And Growing Community No access
  7. Note No access
  8. Works Cited No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Causal Flow Of Violence No access
  3. Bigotry And Hate Speech On The Internet No access
  4. Online Hate Directed At Hindus No access
  5. Hinduphobia As A Social Justice Issue No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
3. 1. The Indo-fijians: An Old Diaspora No access
  2. How The Indian Diaspora Was Created No access
  3. Uniqueness Of The Indo-fijian Diaspora No access
  4. Indo-fijians In Politically Unstable Fiji No access
  5. Religion In Fiji No access
  6. Hinduism, Ethnic Politics, Coups, And The Creation Of Fijian-indian Diaspora No access
  7. Folk Hinduism Of Fiji No access
  8. Hinduism In Theory And Practice No access
  9. Digital Divide No access
  10. Methodology No access
  11. Data Collection No access
  12. Ethnography And Analysis No access
  13. Temples And Hinduism In Fiji On The Net No access
  14. Analysis No access
  15. Discussion And Conclusion No access
  16. Notes No access
  17. Works Cited No access
4. 1. Theoretical Framework: Mediated Identities, Digitalizing Praxis No access
  2. Communicating Identities In Cyberspace: The Subaltern Speaks No access
  3. The Digital Diaspora Connects: Online Convergence And The (re) Birth Of Religious Identity No access
  4. Implications: Toward A Model Of Digital Diasporic Hindu Visibility No access
  5. Note No access
  6. Works Cited No access
1. New Discourses And Alternate Realities? No access
2. Diversifying Or Homogenizing? No access
3. Opportunities For Future Research No access
4. Notes No access
5. Works Cited No access
Index No access Pages 175 - 178
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 179 - 182