{"product_id":"popular-hinduism-stories-and-mobile-performances","title":"Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of \u003cem\u003eRamkatha\u003c\/em\u003e, staged narratives of the \u003cem\u003eRamcharitmanas\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the sensory and media experiences, the author examines the aesthetics and dynamics of the \u003cem\u003eRamkatha\u003c\/em\u003e ethnoscape through participant-observation in everyday practices, and how it particularly, translates politics from the realm of religion. Besides being socially constructed, the \u003cem\u003eRamkatha\u003c\/em\u003e heavily relies on technologies for its production and continuation. Negotiated through a telling of Hindu religious stories, the mediated voice of Morari Bapu, a former school-teacher turned narrator, is a major medium of performance transposed into multiple media such as theatre, stage, music and spectacle. The book engages with voice as a vehicle of meaning to scrutinize its discursive production, imagination and re-production across mobile contexts. It investigates how the transnationally disseminated practices re-contextualize religious subjectivities of an affective community enmeshed in spatio-sensorial modes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will be of interest to academic audiences in the fields of South Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, as well as Performance Studies and Religious Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542385680622,"sku":"9781032204352","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/popular-hinduism-stories-and-mobile-performances","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}