The Hare Krishna and the Counterculture in the Light of the Theory of Divergent Modes of Religiosity
2004; Brill; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/1570068042652301
ISSN1570-0682
Autores Tópico(s)Anthropological Studies and Insights
ResumoTHE HARE KRISHNA AND THE COUNTERCULTURE IN THE LIGHT OF THE THEORY OF DIVERGENT MODES OF RELIGIOSITY K K 1. Introduction The religious roots of the Hare Krishna movement, o ffi cially known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), are in Indian (Bengali) Vaishnavism, but the organization was founded in New York in 1966 by a charismatic Indian monk named A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 1 (1896-1977). The Hare Krishna movement has often been presented as a paradigm case of the new religious movements that emerged in the wake of the counterculture of the 1960’s (see
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