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Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City / John Fahy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789206098
  • 9781789206104
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.5/512095414 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1285.832.M38 F35 2019
  • BL1285.832.M3 F34 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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