Posts Tagged ‘Institutionalization’



Institutionalizing Prema-bhakti

I was doing some web research today and came across this book excerpt by emi­nent Chai­tanya Vaish­nav scholar, Joseph T. O’Connell. He con­cisely and insight­fully describes how Chaitanya’s devo­tional teach­ings and prac­tices became insti­tu­tion­al­ized in a soft, sym­bolic, decen­tral­ized man­ner as opposed to the hard, cen­tral­ized, coer­cive insti­tu­tions later formed by Gaudiya Math and ISKCON. […]