2007, ISBN: 8120829328

[EAN: 9788120829329], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Motilal Banarsidass], Contents: Preface and acknowledgments. Introduction: diagnosing the "Disease" of Tantra. 1. The Golden age of the Veda… Mehr…

[EAN: 9788120829329], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Motilal Banarsidass], Contents: Preface and acknowledgments. 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. 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: reimagining Tantra in contemporary discourse. Notes. Bibliography. Index. "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 played a central yet conflicted role in the western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely other, Tantra has proved to be a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon came 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 of the ongoing play between western and Indian minds. Embracing historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish fulfilment, at once native and other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic orient and the contemporary west.", Books<

2012, ISBN: 8120829328

[EAN: 9788120829329], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.1], [PU: Motilal Banarsidass,], URBAN HUGH B. TANTRA SEX SECRECY POLITICS AND POWER IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION, The book has been… Mehr…

[EAN: 9788120829329], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.1], [PU: Motilal Banarsidass,], URBAN HUGH B. TANTRA SEX SECRECY POLITICS AND POWER IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION, The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<