https://lightofdharma.com/tags/book-editing/ Recent content in Book Editing on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:01:00 +0200 https://lightofdharma.com/the-scholars-gambit-1/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:01:00 +0200 https://lightofdharma.com/the-scholars-gambit-1/ <h2 id="how-an-academic-solution-reproduces-the-problem-it-diagnoses">How an academic solution reproduces the problem it diagnoses.</h2> <p>I read this book twice. Once out of genuine interest — the editing of Prabhupāda&rsquo;s books has been an open wound in ISKCON for decades, and here, finally, was a Lexington Books volume with twelve scholars and actual academic weight behind the argument. The second time I read it slower, with a growing unease I could not immediately name.</p> <p>In February 2020, fourteen academics had gathered at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library. Good coffee, leather chairs. The conference was organized by Graham M. Schweig — Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, doctorate from Harvard, author of his own Bhagavad-gītā translation, editor of Tamal Krishna Goswami&rsquo;s posthumous thesis. Also an initiated disciple of the man whose books were under discussion, though you would not guess it from the way he talks about him.</p>