Date of Award
4-19-2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Religious Studies
First Advisor
Kathryn McClymond - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
David Sehat - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Isaac Weiner - Committee Member
Abstract
This essay explores ISKCON’s religious text A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavad Gita As It Is, as an American scripture. This commentary expressed a philosophy which attracted ISKCON’s American converts and gave voice to the protest they had against the larger American culture. Using Thomas Tweed’s theory of dissent, I show how the Bhagavad Gita As It Is gave the American converts of the 1960s and 1970s a language of dissent in the larger American conversation and allowed them to create an alternative American identity. In this way, the Bhagavad Gita is an American text.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1332076
Recommended Citation
Lasher, Christa Marie, "Bhaktivedanta Swami's American Scripture." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1332076