LEADER 03818nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910807209903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35961-4 010 $a1-59734-932-1 010 $a9786612359613 010 $a9781417525533 010 $a0-520-93689-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936898 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007795 035 $a(EBL)223909 035 $a(OCoLC)475929268 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000255536 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208373 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255536 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10213672 035 $a(PQKB)11066479 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084774 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223909 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30748 035 $a(DE-B1597)520527 035 $a(OCoLC)56028449 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936898 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007795 100 $a20020913d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTantra $esex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions /$fHugh B. Urban 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23062-0 311 0 $a0-520-23656-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-366) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Diagnosing the "Disease" of Tantra --$t1. The Golden Age of the Vedas and the Dark Age of Kàlí: Tantrism, Orientalism, and the Bengal Renaissance --$t2. Sacrificing White Goats to the Goddess: Tantra and Political Violence in Colonial India --$t3. India's Darkest Heart: Tantra in the Literary Imagination --$t4. Deodorized Tantra: Sex, Scandal, Secrecy, and Censorship in the Works of John Woodroffe and Swami Vivekananda --$t5. Religion for the Age of Darkness: Tantra and the History of Religions in the Twentieth Century --$t6. The Cult of Ecstasy: Meldings of East and West in a New Age of Tantra --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aA 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 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. 606 $aTantrism 606 $aTantric Buddhism 615 0$aTantrism. 615 0$aTantric Buddhism. 676 $a294.5/514 700 $aUrban$b Hugh B$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807209903321 996 $aTantra$93984128 997 $aUNINA