Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City / / 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, t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ;
9 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of 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