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Mobile Apps Bring Religion To Your Fingertips: Iphone
Mobile Apps Bring Religion To Your Fingertips: Iphone
Indians pray to a multitude of Gods in multiple situations: good, bad, and ugly. Even as parts of the
world wage wars in the name of God and religion, other parts drive economies even as they invoke the
almighty. Especially true of a multi-religious country like ours. No wonder then that religion and
spirituality is approximately a Rs 2.5 lakh crore market in India (roughly $40 billion).
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MyMandir seeks to provide its citizens with a social network for their
devotional needs. MyMandir has a Facebook-like timeline that lets users
follow activities from Mandirs across the country. Mandirs can upload
pictures and videos of their aartis, and devoting throngs can keep up with
the activities from the convenience of their homes. While Facebook lets
users like, love and heart posts, MyMandir does better users can not only
like updates (pasand), and also digitally do a pranam, present flowers, light
a diya, or even ring the ceremonial bell.
The app also lets people upload their own religious pictures and videos, and
other MyMandir users can follow their updates. Some people appear to have
built sizable followings MyApp maintains a leaderboard of the most
popular content creators. Narendra Pathanaia Rajpoot from Himachal
Pradesh, who published the most popular post on the site over the last 24
hours, has 3,240 followers.
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http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/12/uber-for-god.html
A number of Islamic apps are easing the lives of Muslims who want to read
english translations of the Quran or know the exact Namaz timings. More
and more are relying on Namaz apps which provide the right timings and
also provide alerts for the forgetful ones.
According to The Times of India, Other apps allow users to set azan
ringtones, gives them access to the Hadith (Prophet s sayings), Muslim
cuisine, Arabian Tales and even calculating the correct amount to give
away as religious donations (zakat). One such user expresses his delight at
such apps saying,
Smartphone have changed our lives so much! Not just timings,
I am greatly benefited by one application that helps me
translate the Quran into English and read it.