Gurus and media : sound, image, machine, text and the digital / edited by Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer and Koonal Duggal.

Other author Copeman, Jacob, editor.
Other author Longkumer, Arkotong, editor.
Other author Duggal, Koonal, editor.
Format Book
PublicationLondon : UCL Press, 2023.
Descriptionxvii, 452 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Subjects
Gurus.
Social media--Religious aspects. --Hinduism.

Contents Gurus and media: an introduction / Jacob Copeman, Koonal Duggal, Arkotong Longkumer -- The sonic guru: Rewben Mashangva, folk, roots and the blues / Arkotong Longkumer -- 'Non-human gurus': yoga dolls, online avatars and meaningful narratives / Patrick S.D. McCartney, Diego Lourenço -- Governing with a lockdown beard: the COVID-19 crisis as a laboratory for Narendra Modi's Hindutva / David Landau, Nina Rageth -- 'Immortal Gurus of Bhārata'. the social biography of a contemporary image / Raphaël Voix -- Languages of longing: Indian gurus, Western disciples and practices of letter-writing / Somak Biswas -- Śabda-Guru: conflicts of guru-ship, mediational phenomenology and Śabda-philosophy in Sikhism / Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair -- Hacking God: Ganesh Yourself, an incarnation experiment in human divine circuitry / Emmanuel Grimaud -- Flooding the Web: absence-presence and the media strategies of Nithyananda's digital empire / Amanda Lucia -- When God dies: multi-mediation, the elsewhere and crypto futurity in a global guru movement / Tulasi Srinivas -- Envisioning silence: Ramana Maharshi and the rise of Advaitic photography / Yagna Nag Chowdhuri -- 'Christ the guru': artistic representations of Jesus Christ in South India and their mediated notions of guru-ness / E. Dawson Varughese -- The total guru: film star guru-ship in the time of Hindutva / Jacob Copeman, Koonal Duggal -- Doing seeing: televised yoga, consumption and religious nationalism in neo-liberal India / Srirupa Bhattacharya.
Abstract "Gurus and Media is the first book dedicated to media and mediation in domains of public guruship and devotion. Illuminating the mediatisation of guruship and the guru-isation of media, it 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." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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