Models and molds of traditions: the hermeneutic of Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) upon the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.

Authors

  • Vítor Hugo Adami

Keywords:

tradition, legitimacy, identity and community

Abstract

The Vaisnava tradition is based on Vedas and its main core principle is the process and service to Visnu-Narayana. Along the religious Indian iconography there are different models to relate god as Vishnu. All of these models are communities organized by a distinct norm. Each of them tries to settle legitimacy as an authentic process and devotional service to Vishnu. The purpose of this text is to demonstrate how was built the norm which established Gaudiya Vaishnava, the tradition that is supposed to be a model of Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON). And in the same way how the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) is consecrated in the westward and in India as a norm in order to become a tradition apart from Gaudiya Vaishnava. I mean when the mold has become a model of its original tradition.

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Published

2012-11-25

How to Cite

ADAMI, V. H. . Models and molds of traditions: the hermeneutic of Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) upon the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Sacrilegens , [S. l.], v. 9, n. 2, p. 86–104, 2012. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/sacrilegens/article/view/26730. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.