Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media

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inal Pande

Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances

The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media

inal Pande

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Routledge
26 August 2024

Regional studies; Ethnic studies

Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

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.

By: inal Pande
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032204369
ISBN 10: 1032204362
Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Mrinal Pande is an anthropologist, formerly at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. Currently, she is an independent researcher based in Berlin. Her research, publication and interests are centred on performance, media representations, and body-sensory complexities of religion, particularly Hinduism.