Kenneth Russell Valpey

Attending Krishna's Image

Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth

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Produktbeschreibung

Valpey extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considers Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West. The book focuses on one specific worship tradition, the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries,

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780415864589
• ISBN-10: 0415864585
• Artikelnr.: 37327872

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Russell Valpey is currently a post-doctoral research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and an associate lecturer of the University of Wales, Lampeter (Open Learning Theology and Religious Studies Programme). He has studied, practiced, and taught the murti-seva tradition of Chaitanya Vaishnavism since 1972.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Embodied Truth 1.Texts As Context: Core Textual
Sources and Patterns for Caitanya Vaisnava Image Worship 2. Temple As
Context: The Radharamana Temple as Embodied Community Part 2: Missionizing
Truth 3. Krishna's New Look: A Worship Tradition Faces West 4. Migrant
Texts, Migrant Images: Resettling Krishna in the West Part 3: Images of
Religious Truth