The Hare Krishna Movement

The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant

By: Edwin Bryant (Editor), Maria Ekstrand (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 June 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Dancing and chanting with their shaven heads and saffron robes, Hare Krishnas presented the most visible face of any of the eastern religions transplanted to the West during the sixties and seventies. Yet few people know much about them.

This comprehensive study includes more than twenty contributions from members, ex-members, and academics who have followed the Hare Krishna movement for years. Since the death of its founder, the movement, also known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), has experienced debates over the roles of authority, heresy, and dissent, which have led to the development of several splinter movements. There is a growing women's rights movement and a highly publicized child abuse scandal. Providing a privileged look at the people and issues shaping ISKCON, this volume also offers insight into the complex factors surrounding the emergence of religious traditions, including early Christianity, as well as a glimpse of the original seeds and the germinating stages of a religious tradition putting down roots in foreign soil.

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The great strength of this very useful and important resource comes from its reliance on both the work of scholars in the field of Indian religions and the evaluations of those who have personally experienced this movement over years of change...Highly recommended -- E. Findly Choice This is a poignant book. -- David E. Settje, Concordia University, River Forest Religious Studies Review

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Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Krishna Consciousness in the Context of Hindu Theology	p. 11
Krishna, the Intimate Deity	p. 13
The History of Indic Monotheism and Modern Chaitanya Vaishnavism: Some Reflections	p. 31
Hare Krishna Mahamantra: Gaudiya Vaishnava Practice and the Hindu Tradition of Sacred Sound	p. 35
Krishna in Mleccha Desh: ISKCON Temple Worship in Historical Perspective	p. 45
Bhaktivedanta Swami and His Predecessors	p. 61
Who Is Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?	p. 63
Charismatic Renewal and Institutionalization in the History of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and the Gaudiya Math	p. 73
Bhaktivinoda and Scriptural Literalism	p. 97
The Guru, Mayavadins, and Women: Tracing the Origins of Selected Polemical Statements in the Work of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami	p. 112
Bhaktivedanta Swami's Preaching in the Context of Gaudiya Vaishnavism	p. 129
Post-Bhaktivedanta Controversies of Lineage	p. 147
Cleaning House and Cleaning Hearts: Reform and Renewal in ISKCON	p. 149
The Guardian of Devotion: Disappearance and Rejection of the Spiritual Master in ISKCON After 1977	p. 170
The No Change in ISKCON Paradigm	p. 194
The "Routinization of Charisma" and the Charismatic: The Confrontation Between ISKCON and Narayana Maharaja	p. 214
Heresies	p. 239
Doctrinal Controversy and the Group Dynamic	p. 241
Heresy and the Jiva Debate	p. 264
Social Issues	p. 271
Airports, Conflict, and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement	p. 273
Healing the Heart of ISKCON: The Place of Women	p. 291
Life as a Woman on Watseka Avenue: Personal Story I	p. 312
Child Abuse and the Hare Krishnas: History and Response	p. 321
Fifteen Years Later: A Critique of Gurukula: Personal Story II	p. 345
Race, Monarchy, and Gender: Bhaktivedanta Swami's Social Experiment	p. 347
Reevaluations	p. 391
On Leaving ISKCON: Personal Story III	p. 393
On Staying in ISKCON: Personal Story IV	p. 404
Re-Visioning ISKCON: Constructive Theologizing for Reform and Renewal	p. 416
Concluding Reflections	p. 431
Glossary	p. 443
Index	p. 447
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