Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Release date:	November 2019
Authors:	John Fahy
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-1-78920-609-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
LSN:	1-78920-609-X
Barcode:	9781789206098

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