{"product_id":"popular-hinduism-stories-and-mobile-mrinal-pande-9781032204352","title":"Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of \u003cem\u003eRamkatha\u003c\/em\u003e, staged narratives of the \u003cem\u003eRamcharitmanas\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on the sensory and media experiences, the author examines the aesthetics and dynamics of the \u003cem\u003eRamkatha\u003c\/em\u003e ethnoscape through participant-observation in everyday practices, and how it particularly, translates politics from the realm of religion. Besides being socially constructed, the \u003cem\u003eRamkatha\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mrinal Pande\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032204354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032204352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Mrinal Pande","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070919340287,"sku":"9781032204352","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2abcbcc9-677a-424c-ad0c-844dd71f00a6.jpg?v=1685433100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/popular-hinduism-stories-and-mobile-mrinal-pande-9781032204352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}