(ISKCON, popularly known as ‘Hare Krishna’ movement) a modern sectarian movement with a firm organizational structure founded in 1966 by Svāmi Bhaktivedānta Prabhupāda (1896–1977) within the mainstream Hindu bhakti...

a popular designation for the International Society for Consciousness (ISKCON) which was founded by Svāmi Bhaktivedānta Prabhupāda (1896–1977) in 1966 as a modern off-shoot of the bhakti tradition of...

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS (ISKCON) is the missionary form of devotional Hinduism brought to the United States in 1965 by a pious devotee of Kṛṣṇa who wanted to convert the English-speaking world to...

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), also known as 'the Hare Krishna' movement, was founded in 1966 in New York City by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. While some classified the sect as a new religious movement, its core...

Byline: Compiled by Joanne Wojcik An insurers must defend the International Society of Krishna Consciousness against a lawsuit alleging the Texas branch of the worldwide religious group was negligent for letting members "sexually, physically and emotionally abuse'' children in their care, an...

Malory Nye. Multiculturalism and Minority Religions in Britain: Krishna Consciousness, Religious Freedom, and the Politics of Location. Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. xii + 331 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (cloth). HOW DOES MULTICULTURALISM as a secular form of politics respond to the...