The Hare Krishna movement: the postcharismatic fate of a religious transplant

PART 1. KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF HINDU THEOLOGY

Krishna, the intimate deity / Graham M. Schweig

The history of Indic monotheism and modern Chaitanya Vaishnavism: some reflections / Neal Delmonico

Hare Krishna Mahamantra: Gaudiya Vaishnava practice and the Hindu tradition of sacred sound / Guy L. Beck

Krishna in Mleccha Desh: ISKCON temple workship in historical perspective / Kenneth Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Das)

PART 2. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI AND HIS PREDECESSORS

Who is Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? / Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Das)

Charismatic renewal and institutionalization in the history of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and the Gaudiya Math / Jan Brzezinski

Bhaktivinoda and scriptural literalism / Shukavak N. Das

The guru, Mayavadins, and women: tracing the origins of selected polemical statements in the work of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami / Ekkehard Lorenz

Bhaktivedanta Swami's preaching in the context of Gaudiya Vaishnavism / Paul H. Sherbow

PART 3. POST-BHAKTIVEDANTA CONTROVERSIES OF LINEAGE

Cleaning house and cleaning hearts: reform and renewal in ISKCON / William H. Deadwyler (Ravindra Svarupa Das)

The guardian of devotion: disappearance and rejection of the spiritual master in ISKCON after 1977 / Swami Bhakti Bhavana Vishnu

The no change in ISKCON paradigm / Krishnakant Desai ... [et al.]

The "routinization of charisma" and the charismatic: the confrontation between ISKCON and Narayana Maharaja / Irvin H. Collins

PART 4. HERESIES

Doctrinal controversy and the group dynamic / Conrad Joseph (Kundali Das)

Heresy and the Jiva debate / Howard Resnick (Hridayananda Das Goswami)

PART 5. SOCIAL ISSUES

Airports, conflict, and change in the Hare Krishna movement / E. Burke Rochford Jr.

Healing the heart of ISKCON: the place of women / Kim Knott

Life as a woman on Watseka Avenue: personal story I / Nori J. Muster

Child abuse and the Hare Krishnas: history and response / David Wolf

Fifteen years later: a critique of Gurukula: personal story II / Gabriel Deadwyler (Yudhishthira Das)

Race, monarchy, and gender: Bhaktivedanta Swami's social experiment / Ekkehard Lorenz

PART 6. REEVALUATIONS

On leaving ISKCON: personal story III / Steven J. Gelberg

On staying in ISKCON: personal story IV / Michael Grant (Mukunda Goswami), Anuttama Das Adhikari

Re-visioning ISKCON: constructive theologizing for reform and renewal / Thomas Herzig (Tamal Krishna Goswami), Kenneth Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Das)

Concluding reflections / Edwin F. Bryant, Maria L. Ekstrand.