Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Nāma Haṭṭa System: Community Development and the Modern Roots of a Gaudiya Vaishnava Community

Abstract

The article Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Nāma Haṭṭa System by Claire Robison examines the grassroots spiritual infrastructure created through the Nāma Haṭṭa—Bhaktivinoda’s “marketplace of the holy name.” Robison shows how this decentralized devotional model offered a socially dynamic, rural-oriented blueprint for modern Gaudiya Vaishnava outreach and community-building.