A Whitney Sanford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3471342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Whitney Sanford |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanford |
| SIGNATURE | SANFORD A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7671-9431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
In 1968, two years after A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna Movement, four of his followers set out for Moundsville, West Virginia, to establish New Vrindaban as an ideal, Vedic society organized around devotion to the Hindu deity Krishna. Bhaktivedanta and his devotees envisioned a self-sufficient agrarian society whose food and farming practices would be governed by devotional ritual practice. New Vrindaban was conceived as…
Gandhi’s Agrarian Legacy
M.K. Gandhi’s social and environmental thought continues to shape the contemporary practices of Brahma Vidya Mandir, an intentional community in Paunar, Maharashtra. Since its founding in 1959, members have wrestled with the practical implications of translating Gandhian values such as self-sufficiency, non-violence, voluntary simplicity, and public service into specific practices of food production and consumption. Members of Brahma Vidya Mandir…
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities
Transforming Agricultural Practice
The environmental degradation and social dislocations caused by industrial agriculture have created an urgency to rethink food production and consumption. The proliferation of farmers markets is one example of the public response to perceived problems with the existing food system, however the bewildering array of food choices suggest a need for new guidelines for food and agriculture. This paper asks how expanding the moral imagination through n…
Ethics, Narrative, and Agriculture
The Future of Food
Pinned on Karma Rock
This paper argues that whitewater paddling constitutes religious experience, that non-western terms often best describe this experience and that these two facts are related and have much to tell us about the nature of religious experience. That many paddlers articulate their experiences using Asian and/or indigenous religious terms suggests that this language is a form of opposition to existing norms of what constitutes religious experience. So, …
Shifting the Center
Journal Article Shifting the Center: Yakṣas on the Margins of Contemporary Practice Get access A. Whitney Sanford A. Whitney Sanford Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 89–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfi005 Published: 01 March 2005
Negotiating for Śrīnāthajī, Daūjī, and Jakhaiyā
Painting words, tasting sound
Paramanand was a sixteenth-century saint from the Braj region of India who composed devotional poetry addressed to the Hindu god Krishna. His poems are still sung today in homes and temples according to daily and yearly ritual cycles. According to the Vaisnava tradition, one of the major sixteenth-century Hindu devotional communities, Paramanand himself saw Krishna's play, and his lyrics are so profound that contemporary devotees can see themselv…
Emotive Body in the Aṣṭayāmalīlā Festival
A he Astayamalila festival (performed in Vrindavan, India, in November 1992) dramatized the human body as an essential element in creating and sustaining the intense emotional bond between Krishna and his dev otees.1The devotee enters into a relationship with Krishna based on the bhava (emotion) to which the devotee is most inclined.Bhdvas are those basic emotional attitudes that are essential to the make-up of human beings.Everyone has these bas…
Pinned on Karma Rock
This paper argues that whitewater paddling constitutes religious experience, that non-western terms often best describe this experience and that these two facts are related and have much to tell us about the nature of religious experience. That many paddlers articulate their experiences using Asian and/or indigenous religious terms suggests that this language is a form of opposition to existing norms of what constitutes religious experience. So, …
Ethics, Narrative, and Agriculture
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
In 1968, two years after A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna Movement, four of his followers set out for Moundsville, West Virginia, to establish New Vrindaban as an ideal, Vedic society organized around devotion to the Hindu deity Krishna. Bhaktivedanta and his devotees envisioned a self-sufficient agrarian society whose food and farming practices would be governed by devotional ritual practice. New Vrindaban was conceived as…
Transforming Agricultural Practice
The environmental degradation and social dislocations caused by industrial agriculture have created an urgency to rethink food production and consumption. The proliferation of farmers markets is one example of the public response to perceived problems with the existing food system, however the bewildering array of food choices suggest a need for new guidelines for food and agriculture. This paper asks how expanding the moral imagination through n…
Painting words, tasting sound
Paramanand was a sixteenth-century saint from the Braj region of India who composed devotional poetry addressed to the Hindu god Krishna. His poems are still sung today in homes and temples according to daily and yearly ritual cycles. According to the Vaisnava tradition, one of the major sixteenth-century Hindu devotional communities, Paramanand himself saw Krishna's play, and his lyrics are so profound that contemporary devotees can see themselv…
Emotive Body in the Aṣṭayāmalīlā Festival
A he Astayamalila festival (performed in Vrindavan, India, in November 1992) dramatized the human body as an essential element in creating and sustaining the intense emotional bond between Krishna and his dev otees.1The devotee enters into a relationship with Krishna based on the bhava (emotion) to which the devotee is most inclined.Bhdvas are those basic emotional attitudes that are essential to the make-up of human beings.Everyone has these bas…
Negotiating for Śrīnāthajī, Daūjī, and Jakhaiyā
Painting words, tasting sound
Paramanand was a sixteenth-century saint from the Braj region of India who composed devotional poetry addressed to the Hindu god Krishna. His poems are still sung today in homes and temples according to daily and yearly ritual cycles. According to the Vaisnava tradition, one of the major sixteenth-century Hindu devotional communities, Paramanand himself saw Krishna's play, and his lyrics are so profound that contemporary devotees can see themselv…
Shifting the Center
Journal Article Shifting the Center: Yakṣas on the Margins of Contemporary Practice Get access A. Whitney Sanford A. Whitney Sanford Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 89–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfi005 Published: 01 March 2005
Pinned on Karma Rock
This paper argues that whitewater paddling constitutes religious experience, that non-western terms often best describe this experience and that these two facts are related and have much to tell us about the nature of religious experience. That many paddlers articulate their experiences using Asian and/or indigenous religious terms suggests that this language is a form of opposition to existing norms of what constitutes religious experience. So, …
The Future of Food
Ethics, Narrative, and Agriculture
Transforming Agricultural Practice
The environmental degradation and social dislocations caused by industrial agriculture have created an urgency to rethink food production and consumption. The proliferation of farmers markets is one example of the public response to perceived problems with the existing food system, however the bewildering array of food choices suggest a need for new guidelines for food and agriculture. This paper asks how expanding the moral imagination through n…
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities
Gandhi’s Agrarian Legacy
M.K. Gandhi’s social and environmental thought continues to shape the contemporary practices of Brahma Vidya Mandir, an intentional community in Paunar, Maharashtra. Since its founding in 1959, members have wrestled with the practical implications of translating Gandhian values such as self-sufficiency, non-violence, voluntary simplicity, and public service into specific practices of food production and consumption. Members of Brahma Vidya Mandir…
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
In 1968, two years after A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna Movement, four of his followers set out for Moundsville, West Virginia, to establish New Vrindaban as an ideal, Vedic society organized around devotion to the Hindu deity Krishna. Bhaktivedanta and his devotees envisioned a self-sufficient agrarian society whose food and farming practices would be governed by devotional ritual practice. New Vrindaban was conceived as…
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