{"product_id":"9780199889372","title":"The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritamrita and the Grammar of Religious Tradition","description":"The Gaudiya Vaisnava movement is one of the most vibrant religious groups in all of South Asia. Unlike most devotional communities that flourished in 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Bengal, however, the group had no formal founder. Today its devotees are uniform in their devotion to the historical figure of Krishna Caitanya (1486-1533), whom they believe to be not just Krishna incarnate, but Radha and Krishna fused into a single androgynous form. But Caitanya neither founded the community that coalesced around him nor named a successor. Tony Stewart seeks to discover how, with no central leadership, no institutional authority, and no geographic center, a religious community nevertheless comes to successfully define itself, fix its canon and flourish.  He finds the answer in the brilliant hagiographical exercise in Sanskrit and Bengali titled the \u003cem\u003eCaitanya Caritamrita\u003c\/em\u003e (CC) of Krishnadasa Kaviraja.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119862890736,"sku":"9780199889372","price":92.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199889372_p0.jpg?v=1765232807","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199889372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}