- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 In Place of Ritual -
2 The City and the Pagoda -
3 Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World -
4 Global and Religious -
5 The Muharram Procession of Mumbai -
6 Urban Processions -
7 Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul -
8 Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds -
9 The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok’s Chinatown -
10 Dealing with the Dragon -
11 Contested Religious Space in Jakarta -
12 Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis -
13 From Village to City -
14 The Politics of Desecularization -
15 Parallel Universes -
16 The Flexibility of Religion -
17 Cultivating Happiness -
18 Other Christians as Christian Others -
19 Aspiring in Karachi -
20 Can Commodities be Sacred? -
21 Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s -
22 The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood -
23 Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization Among Twelver Shi‘ites in Mumbai -
24 Internet Hindus - Contributors
- Index
The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood
The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood
- Chapter:
- (p.403) 22 The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood
- Source:
- Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
- Author(s):
Arjun Appadurai
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter examines the soteriology of Bollywood cinema and how it is related to ideas about salvation and spheres as housing, love, and justice. It argues that such ideas are part of Mumbai's battlefield of dreams. In this context, religion has not pnly been a way for human beings to escape the real, but has also always been a way to measure the shortcomings of the everyday, the mortal, the earthly, and the visible. This need may or may not be addressed for Indian moviegoers by their organized religious practices, which one or another sort of contemporary politics have largely captured. This chapter's main thesis is that Hindi-language films remain for many viewers the primary signature of the possibility of salvation.
Keywords: soteriology, Bollywood, cinema, salvation, housing, love, dreams, religion, religious practices, Mumbai
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 In Place of Ritual -
2 The City and the Pagoda -
3 Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World -
4 Global and Religious -
5 The Muharram Procession of Mumbai -
6 Urban Processions -
7 Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul -
8 Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds -
9 The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok’s Chinatown -
10 Dealing with the Dragon -
11 Contested Religious Space in Jakarta -
12 Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis -
13 From Village to City -
14 The Politics of Desecularization -
15 Parallel Universes -
16 The Flexibility of Religion -
17 Cultivating Happiness -
18 Other Christians as Christian Others -
19 Aspiring in Karachi -
20 Can Commodities be Sacred? -
21 Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s -
22 The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood -
23 Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization Among Twelver Shi‘ites in Mumbai -
24 Internet Hindus - Contributors
- Index