Popular Hinduism, stories and mobile performances : the voice of Morari Bapu in multiple media / Mrinal Pande.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pāṇḍe, Mr̥ṇāla, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge South Asian religion series ; 21.

Routledge South Asian religion series ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Aesthetics.

Performing arts--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Performing arts.

Performance--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Performance.

Acting--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Acting.

Theological anthropolog.

Religion and sociology.

Theological anthropology.

Mass media.

Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623--Criticism and interpretation.

Tulasīdāsa.

Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623. Rāmacaritamānasa.

Rāma (Hindu deity)--In mass media.

Rāma.

Morārībāpu--In mass media.

Morārībāpu.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623.

Rāmacaritamānasa (Tulasīdāsa).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 185 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction and Background to the Ramkatha

2. Mapping the Ramkatha

3. Staging the Ramkatha

4. Sounds in Ramkatha

5. Attending to the Senses

6. Construction of a Hindu Voice

7. Conclusion

Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Pāṇḍe, Mr̥ṇāla, 1946- Popular Hinduism, stories and mobile performances

ISBN:

9781032204352

1032204354

9781032204369

1032204362

OCLC:

1290014777

Publisher Number:

99991554641