Bringing Krishna Back to India

Bringing Krishna Back to India
Author: Claire C. Robison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2024
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0197656455

Bringing Krishna Back to India examines the place of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in Mumbai, India's business and entertainment capital, where ISKCON draws Indians from diverse regional and religious backgrounds and devotees adopt a conservative religious identity amidst a neoliberal urban context. By inhabiting a Hindu revivalist role, ISKCON educates Hindus and Jains into a new vision of their own traditions and promotes greater religiosity in Indian public life. This contradicts notions that societies are moving towards secularism and highlights how new religious identities are fashioned amidst industrialized urban spaces, such as college campuses, corporate wellness retreats, and Bollywood celebrity events.

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Author: John Fahy
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2019-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789206103

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.

Religions, Mumbai Style

Religions, Mumbai Style
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 0192889370

A collection of ethnographic essays on the city of Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), the volume questions the city's claim of a 'self-projected' cosmopolitanism by exploring its relationship with religion.

Forms of Krishna

Forms of Krishna
Author: Steven Rosen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 166693027X

The first book of its kind, Forms of Krishna: Collected Essays on Vaishnava Murtis is an exotic journey into the heart of Indian spirituality, explaining the entire esoteric tradition, including yoga and meditation, through a sampling of revered Vaishnava icons, Deities worship in temples throughout the world.