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Autore |
Urban Hugh B. |
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Tantra : Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion / / Hugh B. Urban |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2003] |
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©2003 |
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1-282-35961-4 |
1-59734-932-1 |
9786612359613 |
9781417525533 |
0-520-93689-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (390 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tantric Buddhism |
Tantrism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-366) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Diagnosing the "Disease" of Tantra -- 1. The Golden Age of the Vedas and the Dark Age of Kàlí: Tantrism, Orientalism, and the Bengal Renaissance -- 2. Sacrificing White Goats to the Goddess: Tantra and Political Violence in Colonial India -- 3. India's Darkest Heart: Tantra in the Literary Imagination -- 4. Deodorized Tantra: Sex, Scandal, Secrecy, and Censorship in the Works of John Woodroffe and Swami Vivekananda -- 5. Religion for the Age of Darkness: Tantra and the History of Religions in the Twentieth Century -- 6. The Cult of Ecstasy: Meldings of East and West in a New Age of Tantra -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that |
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seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life-Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be. Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B. Urban reveals how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Tantra emerges as a product of mirroring and misrepresentation at work between East and West--a dialectical category born out of the ongoing play between Western and Indian minds. Combining historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish-fulfillment, at once native and Other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic Orient and the contemporary West. |
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