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Tantra - Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (Paperback, New)
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Tantra - Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (Paperback, New)
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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.
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