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Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond examines how fans worship film stars as deities. Focusing on temples dedicated to Bollywood (Hindi cinema) stars and the artifacts produced by Hindi and Tamil cinema fans, Shalini Kakar illustrates how the fan constructs their identity as a devotee and that of the star as a deity. Extending her research from India to the US, Kakar highlights the transnational dimensions of this phenomenon to demonstrate the degree to which devotional fan practices (fan-bhakti) and fan artifacts can help us rethink art, religion, and politics. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book addresses how fan-bhakti is performed in the global landscape, in the process augmenting new religious models and identities based on the idea of the “cinematic sacred.” For more information, check out www.sacredfandom.com.

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9781793646279

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A fascinating study of film fandom in the context of Hindu bhakti. This book will engage students of religion, cinema and politics of South Asia and beyond. An excellent debut from a scholar to watch. Devotional Fanscapes gives the unique phenomenon of Bollywood fandom the scholarly attention it deserves, putting it in the context of everyday Hindu religiosity and the transnational cultural networks of which it forms an important part.

A fascinating study of film fandom in the context of Hindu bhakti. This book will engage students of religion, cinema and politics of South Asia and beyond. An excellent debut from a scholar to watch.--Rachel Dwyer, SOAS University of London, author of Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema

""A fascinating study of film fandom in the context of Hindu bhakti. This book will engage students of religion, cinema and politics of South Asia and beyond. An excellent debut from a scholar to watch."" --Rachel Dwyer, SOAS University of London, author of Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema ""Devotional Fanscapes gives the unique phenomenon of Bollywood fandom the scholarly attention it deserves, putting it in the context of everyday Hindu religiosity and the transnational cultural networks of which it forms an important part."" --Brian Collins, Ohio University

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Shalini Kakar is an independent scholar and art historian.

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