Mediatized Religion in Asia

Studies on Digital Media and Religion
Herausgeber: Radde-Antweiler, Kerstin; Zeiler, Xenia

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of religious constructions related to digital media in Asia today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781138048249
• ISBN-10: 1138048240
• Artikelnr.: 54802426

Autorenporträt

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research focuses on mediatized religion, mediatization theory, video gaming, Pagan and Christian traditions, and ritual studies. She edited special issues on the interrelation of culture and digital media and published several articles. She is co-editor-in-chief of gamevironments, the first academic journal with a specific focus on video gaming and religion. Xenia Zeiler is tenure track Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research is situated at the intersection of digital media, religion, and culture in India and the worldwide Indian community. Other foci are Digital Humanities and Tantric traditions. She is author of numerous articles and book chapters on digital and mediatized Hinduism, and co-editor-in-chief of gamevironments, the first academic journal with a specific focus on video gaming and religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Mediatized Religion in Asia. Interrelations of Media, Culture
and Society beyond the "West"; Part 1 East Asia; "Does Anyone Know a Good
Healer?" An Analysis of Mediatized Word-of-Mouth Advertising of Spiritual
Healers in Japanese Online Question and Answer Forums; Religious
Mediatization with Chinese Characteristics: Subaltern Voices of Chinese
Muslim Youths; "Aren't you happy?" Healing as Mediatized Nationalism in a
Compressed Modernity; Part 2 Southeast Asia; Facebook and the Mediatization
of Religion: Inter/Intra-Religious Dialogue in Malaysia; On-offline Dakwah
: Social Media and Islamic Preaching in Malaysia and Indonesia ; Church
Digital Applications and the Communicative Meso-Micro Interplay: Building
Religious Authority and Community through Everyday Organizing; Part 3 South
Asia; Ravidassia: neither Sikh nor Hindu? Mediatized Religion in Anti-Caste
Contexts ; Digitalizing Tibet: A Critical Buddhist Reconditioning of
Hjarvard's Mediatization Theory; Part 4 West Asia; Being Religious through
Social Networks: Representation of Religious Identity of Shia Iranians on
Instagram; Understanding Jewish Digital Media in Israel: Between
Technological Affordances and Religious-Cultural Uses; Critical Reflection
Religion as Communicative Figurations - Analyzing Religion in Times of Deep
Mediatization ;