E. Allen Richardson

Seeing Krishna in America

The Hindu Bhakti Tradition of Vallabhacharya in India and Its Movement to the West

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Produktbeschreibung

The Hindu sect the Vallabha Sampradaya was founded in India in the 15th century by a devotional saint, Vallabhacharya. Their bhakti tradition worships a variety of forms of Krishna as a seven-year-old child. Following U.S. immigration reforms in 1965, members of the sect established a spiritual headquarters for the faith in Pennsylvania and began to construct temples across the United States. Since then, the growth has continued as this 500-year-old faith becomes an American religion, as this work demonstrates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780786459735
• ISBN-10: 0786459735
• Artikelnr.: 40212209

Autorenporträt

E. Allen Richardson is a professor of religious studies at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments
ix Preface
1 Introduction
5 Part One: Bhakti, Vallabha and the Search for the Sacred
11 1.
The Vallabha Sampradaya
12 2.
Seeing Krishna: Darshan as the Inward Journey
52 Part Two: Early History
69 3.
Krishna's Many Mansions: Mughal Patronage and Expansion
73 4.
Of Maharajas and Maharanas: Patronage and the Development of Regional Autonomy
86 Part Three: Pushtimarg in America
101 5.
Vaishnavism Without Borders: Shri Nathji and the Journey Abroad
102 6.
Fitting Pushtimarg into American Hinduism
134 7.
The Challenges of the Diaspora
166 Glossary
187 Appendix
197 Chapter Notes
199 Bibliography
215 Index
225