Posthumous Editing of a Great Master's Work (eBook, ePUB)

Special Focus on the Writings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Redaktion: Schweig, Graham M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Posthumous Editing of a Great Master's Work: Special Focus on the Writings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada examines how a leading figure's hallowed written and published works, which remain so important to the religious community, should be editorially treated following the leader's departure from this world. The volume addresses the theological, ethical, social, and legal implications of posthumous editing-and even improving-a great master's works. This book focuses on the extensive posthumous editing of the works of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the original world-teacher of Krishna bhakti of the twentieth century. After Swami Prabhupada departed from this world, some of his disciples, without the expressed approval of the author, attempted to improve on his authorized published work, which resulted in the publication of a continuing series of inauthentic altered editions. This extreme editing of Swami Prabhupada's works precipitated the scholarly research and inquiry into the posthumous editing of a great master's work that forms the basis of this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666939484
• Artikelnr.: 74832047

Autorenporträt

Graham M. Schweig is professor of philosophy and religion and Director of Studies in Religion at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, and he is senior editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Graham M. Schweig
Chapter One: On Revealing the Face of Truth, Julius Lipner
Chapter Two: The Posthumous Editing of the Books of A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada, Edith Best
Chapter Three: Posthumous Editing and the Privilege of the Sages, Austin
Gordon
Chapter Four: On Restoring the 1972 Edition of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is,
Kenneth Rose
Chapter Five: Issues Pertaining to the Editing of Prabhup?da's Books,
Michael J. Gressett
Chapter Six: Los Angeles Devotees' Responses to ISKCON's Post-Charismatic
Editing Crisis, Anna S. King
Chapter Seven: Challenges in Constituting the Written Works of a
Post-Mortem Author, Jonathan Edelmann
Chapter Eight: Guru, Sastra, Anubhava: The Triumvirate of Gau?iya Vai??ava
Authority, Barbara A. Holdrege
Chapter Nine: Let the Master Speak! Issues of Textual Translation,
Organization, and Interpretation in the Tradition of Sri Ramakrishna and
Swami Vivekananda, Jeffery D. Long
Chapter Ten: Establishing Unitary Canons, Allan M. Keislar
Chapter Eleven: The Acharya's Copyrights: Legal Implications of
Irresponsible Publishing, Joseph Fedorowsky
Chapter Twelve: Framing the Master's Work: On the Theo-Literary Method for
Preserving the Completed Writings of a Departed Spiritual Preceptor, Graham
M. Schweig
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