Tantra Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion

Name: Tantra Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
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ISBN: 9780520236561

ISBN-10: 0520236564

ISBN-13: 9780520236561

Edition: 2004

Authors: Hugh B. Urban

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: Diagnosing the "Disease" of Tantra



The Golden Age of the Vedas and the Dark Age of K&lC: Tantrism, Orientalism, and the Bengal Renaissance



Sacrificing White Goats to the Goddess: Tantra and Political Violence in Colonial India



India's Darkest Heart: Tantra in the Literary Imagination



Deodorized Tantra: Sex, Scandal, Secrecy, and Censorship in the Works of




Religion for the Age of Darkness: Tantra and the History of Religions in the Twentieth Century



The Cult of Ecstasy: Meldings of East and West in a New Age of Tantra


Conclusion: Reimagining Tantra in Contemporary Discourse


Notes


Bibliography


Index