Religions going nuts? Faith-based veganism and transformative learning in the context of sustainability transitions (case 1: The Hare Krishna movement)
| Autor: | Tamas Lestar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050210 logistics & transportation
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences General Decision Sciences Environmental ethics Context (language use) Consumption (sociology) religion.religion religion Faith Transformative learning Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Ethnography Sustainability Sociology 050203 business & management Period (music) Hare Krishna media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Organizational Change Management. 33:805-819 |
| ISSN: | 0953-4814 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/jocm-09-2019-0274 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis paper is based on several years of ethnographic and desk-based research studying the Hare Krishna movement. The work is the first in a series exploring how segments of specific faith communities embrace dietary veganism and how this relates to the concept of transformational learning/change in the context of sustainability transitions. The focus is on how these communities embrace a plant-based diet representing different rationales and attitudes of learning in the process of organisational change.Design/methodology/approachI investigated Krishna practices extensively by visiting and volunteering in several of its farm communities in Europe. I used the mixed method of qualitative observations, participation, in-depth interviews and email interviews during a period of ten weeks spent in the communities altogether. I had not been in contact with Hare Krishna believers before the fieldwork.FindingsKrishna veganism is analysed in the context of sustainability transitions by drawing on the concept of transformative (third-order) learning/change. Findings reveal an unexpected tendency to veganism despite the movement's worldview and radical commitment to dairy consumption. By calling into question their own collective dietary paradigm, the Hare Krishna community provides an exemplary case of third-order learning and change in an organisational context.Originality/valueThe paper invites scholars to include third-order learning into sustainability transitions frameworks while aiming to address the shortcomings of theorising levels of learning. The connection between Krishna veganism, third-order learning and sustainability transitions has not been put forward before. |
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