Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City / John Fahy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fahy, John, author.

Series:

Wyse series in social anthropology ; Volume 9.

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Society for Krishna Consciousness--History.

International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Chaitanya (Sect)--Doctrines.

Chaitanya (Sect).

Ethics--Anthropological aspects.

Ethics.

Vaishnavism--India--Bengal.

Vaishnavism.

Vaishnavism--India--Māyāpur.

Vaishnavites--Religious life--India--Māyāpur.

Vaishnavites.

Vaishnavites--India--Māyāpur.

Māyāpur (India)--Religious life and customs.

Māyāpur (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Names, Language and Transliteration

Introduction: A Tale of Two Countercultures

1 Land of the Golden Avatar

2 Changing the Subject

3 Practices of Knowledge

4 Learning to Love Krishna

5 Simple Living, High Thinking

Conclusion: Failing Well

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789206104

1789206103

OCLC:

1141038218