Seeing Krishna in America

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

E. Allen Richardson (Autor)

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240 Seiten

2014
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-5973-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.8.2014
Zusatzinfo	14 photos, 3 maps, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-7864-5973-5 / 0786459735
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-5973-5 / 9780786459735
Zustand	Neuware