The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change [Hardcover]

Graham Dwyer (Editor), Richard J. Cole (Editor)

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Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; 1 edition (Aug 7 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1845114078
ISBN-13: 978-1845114077
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 2.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 567 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,550,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism > Hare Krishna

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"The Hare Krishna Movement combines insightful 'insider' and 'outsider' voices to provide an essential review and timely update on the growing and maturing phenomenon of worldwide Krishna-devotionalism. For storytracking the Hare Krishna movement as an important focal point in today's increasingly varied landscape of spiritual practices and aspirations, this collection is a welcome resource." -- Kenneth Valpey, Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

"This is a fascinating and insightful collection that will prove to be of great interest to students of the Hare Krishna movement and of new religious movements generally. . . . the book reveals a whole new intellectual landscape and puts a refreshing new perspective on our understanding the Hare Krishna phenomenon" -- E. Burke Rochford, Jr., author of Hare Krishna Transformed

"This book…provides readers with an accurate account of ISKCON’s (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) transformation in the West—what ISKCON has become and the direction some of its members would like to see ISKCON go in. It is particularly informative for those who wish to further explore changes within ISKCON as they have taken place within Britain. It is also informative for those who want to chart or predict the direction of political ISKCON. Those who seek further background information on ISKCON as it is today will be thankful for all the thought and effort the editors and contributors have put into this book." - Krishna Kirti Das

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The Hare Krishna Movement is popularly associated with groups of chanting, saffron-robed followers, whose colourful appearance on the streets of western cities became increasingly commonplace after the Movement's emergence in 1965. But there is much more to the Krishna phenomenon than simply its bands of singing and dancing adherents. This groundbreaking book focuses for the first time on what is currently taking place inside the Hare Krishna Movement, and examines the changes and developments that have shaped it over the past forty years. The essays offer an unparalleled overview of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and explore a wide range of topical issues and themes. These include: the politics and history of the Movement; membership patterns; recruitment strategies; pedagogical and social factors; the importance of dreams and ritual; and ISKCON's articulation of traditional theology in the context of the Movement's evolution. The result is a book that will be essential reading for scholars and students of religion in the modern world, and which explains in full how this fascinating Hindu devotional tradition continues to flourish in the land of its origin - India - as well as in the West.

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