Critical reflections on religion and media in contemporary Bali / by Richard Fox.
Scholars of religion have always worked closely with media of one kind or another, from sacred books and archaic languages to cassette-sermons and the Internet. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to the ways we actually use these and other media in the pursuit of historical inquiry. Dr...
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| Superior document: | Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, v. 130 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
130. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Other title: | Mpu Kuthran and the three sanctuaries : a masked dance drama (Topéng Pajegan) performed in a southern balinese village, 3rd of January, 2007. |
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| Summary: | Scholars of religion have always worked closely with media of one kind or another, from sacred books and archaic languages to cassette-sermons and the Internet. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to the ways we actually use these and other media in the pursuit of historical inquiry. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted on the Indonesian island of Bali, this book offers a critique of the media-related assumptions underpinning fields as diverse in their subject matter and approach as the history of religions, British cultural studies and Old Javanese philology. Its central contention is that more nuanced attention to problems of media will have serious implications for how we think about the study of religions, past and present. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283715449 9047429931 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8834 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Richard Fox. |