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Hare Krishna Transformed
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E. Burke Rochford is a sociologist who has studied the Hare Krishna movement, ISKCON, since the 1970s, and this book, published by New York University Press, is an academic sociological study of how the movement changed internally, particularly around its handling of a child abuse crisis within its boarding schools and its subsequent efforts at reform and accountability. Its strength is sustained direct access, Rochford conducted fieldwork within the movement across decades, allowing him to track real institutional change rather than a single snapshot. Its unusually candid engagement with the movement's serious internal failures, drawn from the movement's own later acknowledgment and reform efforts, is a genuine strength for accuracy. Its limit is that it focuses specifically on the North American movement's internal crisis and reform, not on ISKCON's full theology or its practice in other countries.
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E. Burke Rochford Jr.'s sociological study of ISKCON's institutional transformation from the 1970s through the 2000s, including its response to internal scandals, published by New York University Press; a study of the movement's institutions, not a general reference on Gaudiya Vaishnava theology. NotesSociological study of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, the Hare Krishna movement) tracing its institutional transformation from the 1970s through the 2000s, including its response to internal scandals. Use for established sociological facts about ISKCON's organizational history; a study of the movement's institutions, not a general reference on Gaudiya Vaishnava theology.
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AuthorE. Burke Rochford Jr.
PublisherNew York University Press
Publication Year2007
URLhttps://archive.org/details/harekrishnatrans0000roch
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