Digital Hinduism

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List of contributors

Introduction: Digital Hinduism: Studying Hinduism at the intersections of digital media and culture

XENIA ZEILER

PART 1

Who belongs? Identity and finding one's place

1 Whats(up) with Hinduism? Digital culture and religion

among Bengali Hindus

APARAJ I TA DE AND RAJIB NANDI

2 Hindu religious identification in India's online matrimonial market

FRITZI-MARIE TITZMANN

3 Automatic rituals and inadvertent audiences: ISKCON, Krishna and the ritual mechanics of Facebook

N ICOLE KARAPANAGIOTIS

4 Cultural regrouping in the diaspora: Mediating Hindu identity online

JULI L. GITTINGER

PART 2

Who defines? Authority and appropriation

5 Authors, self-fashioning and online cultural production in

the age of Hindu celevision

PRAMOD K. NAYAR

6 Instagram your Durga Puja! Social media, hashtags and state-sponsored cultural marketing

DHEEPA SUNDARAM

7 Sa?khyayoga and the Internet: The website of a

contemporary Hindu monastic institution

KNUT A. JACOBSEN

8 Mediatized gurus: Hindu religious and artistic authority

and digital culture

HANNA MANNILA AND XENIA ZEILER

PART 3

Who debates? Contest and negotiation

9 The Internet: A new marketplace for transacting puja items

VINEETA SINHA

10 Taming Hindu Sakta Tantra on the Internet: Online pujas

for the goddess Tripurasundari

SRAVANA BORKATAKY-VARMA

11 New media and spiritualism in India: Understanding online spiritualism in convergence cultures

JESNA JAYACHANDRAN






Streaming the divine: Hindu temples' digital journeys
YAEL LAZA R

PART 4

Critical reflection




Reflections on digital Hinduism: Sacred images, dominant

Hindu narratives and the generational digital divide

H EI NZ SCHEI FINGER

Index