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Contents Transcription of Indian Words Introduction RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND ITS INSTITUTIONALIZATION Caitanya’s Ecstasies and the Theology of the Name • Norvin J. Hein Caitanya’s Followers and the Bhagavad-Gītā: A Case Study in Bhakti and the Secular • Joseph T. O’Connell The Transformation of Śrī Rāmakrishna • Walter G. Neevel, Jr The Rāmakrishna Math and Mission: A Case Study of a Revitalization Movement • Cyrus R. Pangborn Mixing in the Color of Rām of Rānujā: A Folk Pilgrimage to the Grave of a Rājput Hero-Saint • Mira Reym Binford The Medieval Bhakti Movement in History: An Essay on the Literature in English • Eleanor Zelliot NEW INTERPRETATIONS IN EPIC MYTHOLOGY Life out of Death: A Structural Analysis of the Myth of the ‘Churning of the Ocean of Milk’ • J. Bruce Long The Burning of the Forest Myth • Alf Hiltebeitel Contributors Index