Beschreibung:
Valpey extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considers Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West. The book focuses on one specific worship tradition, the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries,
Introduction Part 1: Embodied Truth 1.Texts As Context: Core Textual Sources and Patterns for Caitanya Vaisnava Image Worship 2. Temple As Context: The Radharamana Temple as Embodied Community Part 2: Missionizing Truth 3. Krishna's New Look: A Worship Tradition Faces West 4. Migrant Texts, Migrant Images: Resettling Krishna in the West Part 3: Images of Religious Truth