Tantra : sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions

Tantra : sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions / Hugh B. Urban.

Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Urban, Hugh B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Tantrism.
Tantric Buddhism.
Vajrayana.
tantrism (ideology)
RELIGION > Hinduism > General.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Tantric Buddhism
Tantrism
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Diagnosing the "Disease" of Tantra; 1. The Golden Age of the Vedas and the Dark Age of Kali: 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.

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