Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia

by Lawrence A Babb, Eds. and Susan S. Wadley

This volume of provocative essays explores the effects of the religious transformation taking place in India as sacred symbols assume the shapes of media images. LIfted from their traditional forms and contexts many relgious symbols, beliefs and practices are increasingly refracted through such media as god posters, cosmic books audio recordings and programs of video cassette.. Lawrence A. Babb is professor of Anthropology at Amherst College. Susan S. Wadley is professor of Anthropology at syracuse University. The editors must be commended for bringing out a volumes on little researched about dimension of religious change & forms of transmissions in India.......volume goes miles in suggesting ways to contextualise technology-market-people complex as a research tool involving relgion in as much an object to be researched about." --------Research Bulletin Vishveshvaranand Vedic Res. Inst. Vol. 3, Dec., 2004