Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

ISBN-13: 9781138048249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler; Xenia Zeiler

Opis

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

Spis treści

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 ;