Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia : : An Introduction / / ed. by L.W.C. van Lit, James Harry Morris.

In pre-modern religions in the geographical context of Asia we encounter unique scripts, number systems, calendars, and naming conventions. These can make Western-built technologies - even tools specifically developed for digital humanities - an ill fit to our needs. The present volume explores this...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Introductions to Digital Humanities - Religion ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • The Digital Humanities and the History of Religion in Asia: An Introduction
  • Temples
  • BulgyoLoc, a Geographical Approach to Korean Buddhism: From the Three Kingdoms Period to Current Koreas through Korean Buddhist Temples
  • Rock-Carved Buddhist Images on Mt. P'algong: An Exploration of the Utility of GIS Analysis in Art Historical Research
  • Manuscripts
  • DREAMSEA Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia. A Multiple Religious and Cultural Digitization Experience
  • Getting Ready for the CV Revolution
  • The (Hyper)Text of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: Digital and Online Environments - Their Impact on Considerations on the Text, Its Reconstruction, and Its History
  • Digital Orientalism? Philology, Digital Methodologies, and Reflections on the Study of Primary Sources to North Indian Religions
  • Texts
  • Peter Flügel The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities
  • Daoist Immortals as a Poetic Image in the Tang Dynasty: A Corpus Study
  • Missiology in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Pre-Modern Christianity in Japan
  • Social Media
  • Gonojagoron Monchos of the 2013 Shahbag Protests in Bangladesh: "Religions" and Digital Media
  • On Kami and Avatars: Social Media Literacy and Academics as Public Intellectuals
  • Consuming Shinto, Feeding the Algorithm: Exploring the Impact of Social Media Software on Global Religious Aesthetic Formations
  • Conclusion: Surprising Effects of the Digital Turn
  • Subject index