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Political Deification and Religious Populism in Modi’s India
Populism, volume 8 (2025), 28 pp.
"The article explores the phenomenon of political deification within the framework of religious populism, focusing on the leadership of Narendra Modi in India. Drawing on discourse theory, religious studies, and critical media studies, the paper examines how Modi’s image is sacralized, positioning
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.
"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ
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The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods: The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 127-142
"The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South a
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xii, 195 pp.
"Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also o
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The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 501 pp.
"The tension between the two historical realities, Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated with foreign power and colonialism, continues to animate Hindu-Christian relations today. On the one hand, The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations describes
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Digital Hinduism
London; New York: Routledge (2020), 283 pp.
"Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how Hi
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The Contagion of Hate in India
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 23 pp.
"This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon of hate speech and its potential to legitimise discrimination and promote violence against its targets. It lays out the interconnections between Islamophobia, hate speech and acts of physical violence against Muslims. The role of social media, especi
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An Introduction to Religious Pluralism in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Internews (2019), 39 pp.
"While the first chapter looks at the existing constitutional and legal provisions for the exercise of freedom of religion and religious plurality, the other four chapters reflect upon some of the key sites of religious interface and syncretism that promote inter-religious understanding and pluralit
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Hinduism and Hindu nationalism online
London ; New York: Routledge (2019), viii, 181 pp.
"This study surveys a wide range of propaganda, websites and social media in which definitions of Hinduism are debated. In particular, it focuses on the role of Hindu nationalism in the presentation and management of Hinduism in the electronic public sphere. Hindu nationalist parties and individuals
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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.
"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
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Vigilante Publics: Orientalism, Modernity and Hindutva Fascism in India
Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-350
"This paper explores the interconnections of Hindutva fascist repertoires in India and quasi-orientalist discourses. History and common sense are re-written through audiovisual communications to appeal to one section of a dangerously split Indian public and a neoliberal-touristic sensibility elsewhe
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Comics and sacred texts: Reimagining religion and graphic narratives
Jackson (MS): University Press of Mississippi (2018), xxi, 299 pp.
"In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability t
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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
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New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-
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Archiving as History-Making: Religious Politics of Social Media in India
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 212-230
"This article explores the case of right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteers in India, to turn a critical eye on a digital practice that has become prominent on new media in India in recent times-the assembling of facts, figures, and treatises as an ideological exercise by the net-savvy "nonexperts."
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Folklore, religion and the songs of a Bengali madman: A journey between performance and the politics of cultural representation
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2016), xvi, 332 pp.
"This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if ex
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Mythology and Society Continuum: A Study of an Indian Television Serial
Religion and Social Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2014), pp. 19-34
"The study is based on the analysis of legends of 'Devon Ke Dev Mahadev', a mythological drama series that is shown on Indian television channel "Life OK" [...] The story revolves around Lord Shiva or Mahadev - the Lord of Lords as one of the three most powerful mythical characters. The serial is a
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Influences of Religious Telecast in Multi-Religious India: An Analysis of Hindu and Muslim Television Viewers
Religion and Social Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2014), pp. 54-69
Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.
