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Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 5-21

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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web

Ingrid Therwath

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.

"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c ... more

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McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India

Jonathan D. James

New Delhi: Sage (2010), xxvii, 232 pp.

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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.

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India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes

Karline McLain

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), 240 pp.

"Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the A ... more

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Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2006), 195 pp.

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