Fahy Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-610-4
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 204 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahy, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Names, Language and Transliteration

Introduction: A Tale of Two Countercultures

Chapter 1. Land of the Golden Avatar

Chapter 2. Changing the Subject

Chapter 3. Practices of Knowledge

Chapter 4. Learning to Love Krishna

Chapter 5. Simple Living, High Thinking

Conclusion: Failing Well

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fahy, John
John Fahy is an Affiliated Researcher at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. He has published widely on the anthropology of religion, ethics and interfaith engagement in both India and the Persian Gulf. He is the co-editor of The Interfaith Movement: Mobilising Religious Diversity in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2019), with Jan-Jonathan Bock, and Emergent Religious Pluralisms (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), with Jan-Jonathan Bock and Samuel Everett.