Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City / / John Fahy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Fahy, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206104; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206104?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Fahy.

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.