Bringing Krishna Back to India
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765645-7 (ISBN)
Bringing Krishna Back to India examines the place of this globalized religious community 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. Claire C. Robison examines the full-circle globalization of this religious movement and considers how religious revivalism shifts people's relationships to their religion, family, culture, and nation. 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. It also shows how local religion is shaped by transnational networks-even forms of revivalism that revere premodern ideals. In urban India religious traditionalism is often a form of cosmopolitanism, partaking in neoliberal economies, shaping political trends, and reflecting elite urban aspirations and aesthetics.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.08.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 12, b/w |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 635 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-765645-5 / 0197656455 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-765645-7 / 9780197656457 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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