Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City. John Fahy
Культурология. WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
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isbn 9781789206104
Автор произведения John Fahy
Жанр Культурология
Серия WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Издательство Ingram
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.