RT Book
T1 Gurus and media: sound, image, machine, text and the digital
A2 Copeman, Jacob 1979-
A2 Longkumer, Arkotong
A2 Duggal, Koonal
LA English
PP London
PB UCL Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1854477323
AB The first book dedicated to media and mediation in domains of public guruship and devotion. Illuminating the mediatization of guruship and the guruization of media, this book bridges the gap between scholarship on gurus and the disciplines of media and visual culture studies. It investigates guru iconographies in and across various time periods and also the distinctive ways in which diverse gurus engage with and inhabit different forms of media: statuary, games, print publications, photographs, portraiture, films, machines, social media, bodies, words, graffiti, dolls, sound, verse, tombs, and more. The book’s interdisciplinary chapters advance, both conceptually and ethnographically, our understanding of the function of media in the dramatic production of guruship and reflect on the corporate branding of gurus and on mediated guruship as a series of aesthetic traps for the captivation of devotees and others. They show how different media can further enliven the complex plurality of guruship, for instance in instantiating notions of “absent-present” guruship and demonstrating the mutual mediation of gurus, caste, and Hindutva. Gurus and Media foregrounds contested visions of the guru in the development of devotional publics and pluriform guruship across time and space. Thinking through the guru’s many media entanglements in a single place, this book contributes new insights to the study of South Asian religions and to the study of mediation more broadly.
CN BL1055
SN 9781800085565
SN 9781800085558
K1 Gurus
K1 Social Media : Religious aspects : Hinduism
K1 Anthropologie
K1 Cultural Studies
K1 Kulturwissenschaften
K1 Media Studies
K1 Medienwissenschaften
K1 RELIGION / General
K1 Religion & beliefs
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
K1 Social Science / Media Studies
K1 Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.14324/111.9781800085541