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This is an engaging book of high scholarly quality on a subject about which very little has been written to date. Journey through the Twelve Forests ranks along with Irawati Karve's On the Road, a Maharashtrian Pilgrimage (1962), Ann Grodzins Gold's Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (Berkeley, 1988), and William Sturman Sax's Mountain Goddess (New York, 1991) as one of very few detailed, firsthand, first-rate scholarly account of Hindu pilgrimage. --Journal of Religion A remarkably rich study--moving from legend through geographical information and religious theory to the sweaty realism of pilgrimage. I particularly appreciated having the Krishna stories generally in association with the traditional sites--as a pilgrim would be hearing them. Setting and journey are quite effectively described. --Kenneth B. Welliver, West Virginia Wesleyan College Enchantingly written. Haberman makes pilgrimage come alive--maybe because he himself lived it. It's really fun to read, and would go very well with slides of Krishna miniatures. --F.W. Blackwell, Washington State University A delightful reading for layman and scholar alike. Very informative and clearly written. --Laxmi G. Tewari, Sonoma State University A splendid rendering of pilgrimage and the devotional motive. A better Krishna emerges through his accounting. Jai Radha, jai Krishna! --Joanna Kirkpatrick, Bennington College Beautifully written, Highly evocative, and very attractive to student readers. --Gene R. Thursby, University of Florida [David Haberman] has become well-known as a knowledgeable and thorough scholar of Vaisnavism...[This work] is a pleasure to read and to recommend to everyone interested in not only the religion of Braj but of religion and its study in the broader context. --Journal of Vaisnava Studies

"""This is an engaging book of high scholarly quality on a subject about which very little has been written to date. Journey through the Twelve Forests ranks along with Irawati Karve's ""On the Road, a Maharashtrian Pilgrimage"" (1962), Ann Grodzins Gold's Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (Berkeley, 1988), and William Sturman Sax's Mountain Goddess (New York, 1991) as one of very few detailed, firsthand, first-rate scholarly account of Hindu pilgrimage.""--Journal of Religion ""A remarkably rich study--moving from legend through geographical information and religious theory to the sweaty realism of pilgrimage. I particularly appreciated having the Krishna stories generally in association with the traditional sites--as a pilgrim would be hearing them. Setting and journey are quite effectively described.""--Kenneth B. Welliver, West Virginia Wesleyan College ""Enchantingly written. Haberman makes pilgrimage come alive--maybe because he himself lived it. It's really fun to read, and would go very well with slides of Krishna miniatures.""--F.W. Blackwell, Washington State University ""A delightful reading for layman and scholar alike. Very informative and clearly written.""--Laxmi G. Tewari, Sonoma State University ""A splendid rendering of pilgrimage and the devotional motive. A better Krishna emerges through his accounting. Jai Radha, jai Krishna!""--Joanna Kirkpatrick, Bennington College ""Beautifully written, Highly evocative, and very attractive to student readers.""--Gene R. Thursby, University of Florida ""[David Haberman] has become well-known as a knowledgeable and thorough scholar of Vaisnavism...[This work] is a pleasure to read and to recommend to everyone interested in not only the religion of Braj but of religion and its study in the broader context.""--Journal of Vaisnava Studies"

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