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1. See the "authorised" six-volume biography by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (1980-83) for a detailed narrative of Prabhupäda's life and the creation of ISKCON. Volume 1 (S. Goswami, 1980) impressively documents Prabhupäda's life in India before coming to the United States.
   
    
2.  For a discussion of this approach, see Tucker, 1970.
   
    
3. Wach offers an excellent analysis of the prophet as a religious type and substantially develops the original Weberian formulation.
   
    
4.  See S. Goswami, 1980-83 (particularly Vols. 1-3) for many illustrative examples.
   
    
5.  Personal interview with the author.
   
    
6.  ibid.
   
    
7.  ibid.
   
    
8.  Prabhupäda's approach is also seen in sectarian Orthodox Judaism, where the skills and technical knowledge of modernity are encouraged, but the values rejected. For example, while higher education in engineering or accounting is permitted, the liberal and fine arts are dismissed as "useless" and "immoral" (Selengut 1994).
   
    
9. For an application of this quality to political leadership, see Rustow (1970: 218).

References

Hopkins, Thomas J., 1983. "Interview with Thomas J. Hopkins." In Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West, pp.101-61. ed. by Steven J..Gelberg. New York: Grove Press.

Judah, J. Stillson, 1974. Hare Krishna and the Counterculture. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Rustow, Dankwart A., 1970. "Ataturk as Founder of a State." In Philosophers and Kings: Studies in Leadership , pp.208-47. ed. by Dankwart A. Rustow. New York: George Braziller.

Satsvarüpa däsa Goswami, 1980-83. Srila Prabhupada-Lilamrita, 6 vols. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
1980. Srila Prabhupäda-Lilamrita, Vol.1: A Lifetime in Preparation: India, 1896-1965. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
1980. Srila Prabhupäda-Lilamrita, Vol.2: Planting the Seed: New York City, 1965-1966. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
1981. Srila Prabhupäda-Lilamrita, Vol.3: Only He Could Lead Them: San Francisco/India, 1967. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

Selengut, Charles, 1987. "The Search for the Sacred: Jewish Youth and New Religious Movements." In Judaism Today, ed. by Dan Sherbok-Cohn. New York: Paragon.
1988. "Cults and Jewish Identity" in Smashing the Idols by Gary Eisenberg, Jason Aronson Press.
1994. "By Torah Alone; Yeshiva Fundamentalism in Jewish Society" in Accounting for Fundamentalism edited by Martin Marty and F. Scott Appleby, University of Chicago Press.

Tamal Krishna Goswami, 1984. Servant of the Servant. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

Tucker, Robert C., 1970 "The Theory of Charismatic Authority." In Philosophers and Kings: Studies in Leadership, pp.69-94. ed. by Dankwart A. Rustow. New York: George Braziller.

Wach, Joachim, 1944. Sociology of Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Weber, Max, 1947. The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation. New York: Oxford University Press.
1963. The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press.

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