Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Embodied Truth 1.Texts As Context: Core Textual Sources and Patterns for Caitanya Vaisnava Image Worship 2. Temple As Context: The Radharamana Temple as Embodied Community Part 2: Missionizing Truth 3. Krishna’s New Look: A Worship Tradition Faces West 4. Migrant Texts, Migrant Images: Resettling Krishna in the West Part 3: Images of Religious Truth

About the Author

Kenneth Russell Valpey is currently a post-doctoral research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and an associate lecturer of the University of Wales, Lampeter (Open Learning Theology and Religious Studies Programme). He has studied, practiced, and taught the murti-seva tradition of Chaitanya Vaishnavism since 1972.