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UNINA9910783156203321 |
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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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Tantric Buddhism |
Tantrism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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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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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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life-Tantra has held a central yet |
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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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UNINA9910798400803321 |
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Autore |
Shilon Avi |
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Ben-Gurion : his later years in the political wilderness / / Avi Shilon ; translated by Naama Zohar |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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_GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack |
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This is the first in-depth account of the later years of David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Israel's first Prime Minister and founding father. One of the first to sign Israel's declaration of independence and a leading figure in Zionism, Ben-Gurion stepped down from office in 1963 and retired from political life in 1970, deeply disappointed about the path |
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on which the state had embarked and the process that brought about the end of his political career. Based on his personal archives and new interviews with his intimate friends and family, the book reveals how the founding father explored the Israe |
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