Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances

The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-20435-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narratives of the Ramcharitmanas.

Focusing on the sensory and media experiences, the author examines the aesthetics and dynamics of the Ramkatha ethnoscape through participant-observation in everyday practices, and how it particularly, translates politics from the realm of religion. Besides being socially constructed, the Ramkatha 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.

The 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pande, Mrinal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction and Background to the Ramkatha; Chapter 2 Mapping the Ramkatha; Chapter 3 Staging the Ramkatha; Chapter 4 Sounds in Ramkatha; Chapter 5 Attending to the Senses; Chapter 6 Construction of a Hindu Voice; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Mrinal Pande is an anthropologist, formerly at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. Currently, she is an independent researcher based in Berlin. Her research, publication and interests are centred on performance, media representations, and body-sensory complexities of religion, particularly Hinduism.