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020			_a9781789206098
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100			_aFahy, John
245			_aBecoming Vaishnava in an ideal Vedic city
260			_aNew York _bBerghahn _c2020
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490			_aWyse series in social anthropology; Vol. 9
520			_aBecoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.
650			_aReligion
650			_aAnthropology
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