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…mehr
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.
Claire C. Robison is Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. She examines religion in urban India amidst changing ideas about family, gender, class, and regional heritage and the interplay between transnational networks and local religion.
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* Introduction: The Novelty of Traditionalism: Tracing Global Networks in Local Hindu Revivalism * Chapter 1: New Religious Movement, Old Religious Movement: Historicizing a Transnational Organization * Chapter 2: Global and Local Networks in a Neighborhood Temple: ISKCON Chowpatty, Mumbai * Chapter 3: Crossing Over: Entering the Devotional Family * Chapter 4: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions: Revising Religion * Chapter 5: Bhakti and Its Boundaries: Enacting a Religious Nation * Chapter 6: A New Traditionalism in the City: Transforming Local Culture * Conclusion: Producing a Religious Modernity in Urban India
* Introduction: The Novelty of Traditionalism: Tracing Global Networks in Local Hindu Revivalism * Chapter 1: New Religious Movement, Old Religious Movement: Historicizing a Transnational Organization * Chapter 2: Global and Local Networks in a Neighborhood Temple: ISKCON Chowpatty, Mumbai * Chapter 3: Crossing Over: Entering the Devotional Family * Chapter 4: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions: Revising Religion * Chapter 5: Bhakti and Its Boundaries: Enacting a Religious Nation * Chapter 6: A New Traditionalism in the City: Transforming Local Culture * Conclusion: Producing a Religious Modernity in Urban India
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