Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction 1 Mediatized Religion in Asia: Interrelations of Media, Culture and Society beyond the “West” PART 1 East Asia 2 “Does Anyone Know a Good Healer?” An Analysis of Mediatized Word-of-Mouth Advertising of Spiritual Healers in Japanese Online Question and Answer Forums 3 Religious Mediatization with Chinese Characteristics: Subaltern Voices of Chinese Muslim Youths 4 “Aren’t you happy?” Healing as Mediatized Nationalism in a Compressed Modernity PART 2 Southeast Asia 5 Facebook and the Mediatization of Religion: Inter-/Intrareligious Dialogue in Malaysia 6 On-Offline Dakwah: Social Media and Islamic Preaching in Malaysia and Indonesia 7 Church Digital Applications and the Communicative Meso-Micro Interplay: Building Religious Authority and Community through Everyday Organizing PART 3 South Asia 8 Ravidassia: Neither Sikh nor Hindu? Mediatized Religion in Anti-caste Contexts 9 Digitalizing Tibet: A Critical Buddhist Reconditioning of Hjarvard’s Mediatization Theory PART 4 West Asia 10 Being Religious through Social Networks: Representation of Religious Identity of Shia Iranians on Instagram 11 Understanding Jewish Digital Media in Israel: Between Technological Affordances and Religious-Cultural Uses PART 5 Critical Reflection 12 Religion as Communicative Figurations – Analyzing Religion in Times of Deep Mediatization Index