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Tantra : Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion / / Hugh B. Urban



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Autore: Urban Hugh B. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Tantra : Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion / / Hugh B. Urban Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2003]
©2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
Disciplina: 294
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Soggetto topico: Tantric Buddhism
Tantrism
Soggetto non controllato: anthropology
buddhism
buddhist tradition
comparative religion
contemporary religion
critical theory
cultural phenomena
east and west
eastern philosophy
european scholars
faith and spirituality
hinduism
india
indian religions
jainism
nonfiction
physical experiences
political power
religious lives
religious practices
religious secrecy
religious studies
sensuality
sex
sexual politics
sexuality
tantra
western thought
western world
world religions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-366) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Tantra  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35961-4
1-59734-932-1
9786612359613
9781417525533
0-520-93689-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783156203321
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