Tantra : sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions / Hugh B. Urban.
2003
BL1283.84 U73 2003eb
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Title
Tantra : sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions / Hugh B. Urban.
Author
ISBN
9780520936898 (electronic bk.)
0520936892 (electronic bk.)
1417525533 (electronic bk.)
9781417525539 (electronic bk.)
1597349321
9781597349321
9786612359613
6612359617
0520230620
9780520230620
0520236564
9780520236561
1282359614
9781282359611
9781417525533
0520936892 (electronic bk.)
1417525533 (electronic bk.)
9781417525539 (electronic bk.)
1597349321
9781597349321
9786612359613
6612359617
0520230620
9780520230620
0520236564
9780520236561
1282359614
9781282359611
9781417525533
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 372 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
2770873
Call Number
BL1283.84 U73 2003eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)56028449
Summary
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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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-366) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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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Print version: Urban, Hugh B. Tantra. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003
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