... India Taiwan religious television enchanted modernities nonsecular modernities supernatural beliefs consumerism and religion marketised spiritualisms ...

... Themes raised in chapter 5 are developed further in chapter 6 on “enchanted” rather than “modern-rational” forms of expertise. This chapter turns to religious, spiritual, and supernatural life advice television in India and Taiwan to explore the distinctive counternarratives of modernity...

... Chapter 3 examines another vast televisual landscape, that of India. This chapter maps the shifting and varied constructions of place, space, and sociotemporalities that have shaped Indian TV, noting that questions of scale in India are strongly inflected by marked forms of social and cultural...

...Television and Religion ...

... resigned from the offcial Spanish television channel under the Franco dictatorship and gained a new lease on life in Bolivia in 1968. He immediately adopted Bolivian citizenship and gradually became involved in the social and political problems of his new country through radio, photography, film reviews...