TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fahy,John
TI  - Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
T2  - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
SN  - 9781789206098
AV  - BL1285.832.M38 F35 2019
U1  - 294.5/512095414 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Chaitanya (Sect)
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Anthropological aspects
KW  - Vaishnavites
KW  - Religious life
KW  - India
KW  - Māyāpur
KW  - RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology (General)
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206104?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789206104
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789206104/original
ER  -