Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Guy L. Beck 2. Contemporary Metaphor Theory and Alternative Views of Krishna and Radha in Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Traditions Glen Alexander Hayes 3. Folk Vaishnavism and the Thakur Pancayat: Life and Status among Village Krishna Statues June McDaniel 4. Domesticating Krishna: Friendship, Marriage, and Women's Experience in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition Tracy Pintchman 5. Krishna as Loving Husband of God: The Alternative Krishnology of the Radhavallabha Sampradaya Guy L. Beck 6. Holx through Daujx's Eyes: Alternate Views of Krishna and Balarama in Daujx A. Whitney Sanford 7. A Family Affair: Krishna Comes to Pandharpur and Makes Himself at Home Christian Lee Novetzke 8. Dance before Doom: Krishna in the Non-Hindu Literature of Early Medieval South India Anne E. Monius 9. Hero of Wonders, Hero in Deeds: Vasudeva Krishna in Jaina Cosmohistory Jerome H. Bauer 10. Epiphany in Radha's Arbor: Nature and the Reform of Bhakti in Hariaudh's Priyapravas Valerie Ritter Contributors Index

About the Author

Guy L. Beck, a religious historian, teaches Hinduism and Asian Religions in the Religious Studies Program at Tulane University. He is the author of Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound.