Name: Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (en Inglés)
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Author: Hugh B. Urban
ISBN: 9780520236561

portada Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (en Inglés)

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Hugh B. Urban

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

388

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0520236564

ISBN13

9780520236561

N° edición

Categorías

Asia meridional (subcontinente indio)
Historia de asia

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (en Inglés)

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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 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.