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Multiculturalism and Minority Religions in Britain: Krishna Consciousness, Religious Freedom and the Politics of Location
Author(s): Malory Nye (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Jan. 2001
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 0700713921
- ISBN-13: 9780700713929
Book Description
A detailed case study of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Britain. The book studies the particular development of a new religious movement within the context of Britain, and issues relating to minority religions’ place within a multicultural but still hegemonically Christian society.
Editorial Reviews
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‘A detailed and well written book deserves to be widely read. This timely and well-told story should be in every University library and would enliven any graduate or senior undergraduate course on Hinduism.’ – Hindu-Christian Studies
‘A book which is valuable particularly on account of the care with which solid ethnographic and legal material has been assembled’ – Ethnic and Racial Studies
‘A detailed and well written book deserves to be widely read. This timely and well-told story should be in every University library and would enliven any graduate or senior undergraduate course on Hinduism.’ – Hindu-Christian Studies
‘A book which is valuable particularly on account of the care with which solid ethnographic and legal material has been assembled’ – Ethnic and Racial Studies
‘This book crosses a number of disciplines and it is therefore possible to recommned it to students of anthropology, religion and the social and political sciences. It is written in a clear style that should also make it accessible to the interested general reader.’ – Reviews in Religion and Theology
‘Malory Nye provides an empirically detailed and theoretically engaging account of a lengthy and complex dispute over the status, use and significance of a place of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Conciousness) worship’ – Ethnos
