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Tantra Sex Secrecy Politics And Power In The Study Of Religion 1st Edition Hugh B Urban

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Tantra Sex Secrecy Politics And Power In The Study Of Religion 1st Edition Hugh B Urban
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Publisher: University of California Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 2.4 MB
Pages: 390
Author: Hugh B. Urban
ISBN: 9780520230620, 9780520236561, 9781417525539, 0520230620, 0520236564, 1417525533
Language: English
Year: 2003
Edition: 1

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Tantra Sex Secrecy Politics And Power In The Study Of Religion 1st Edition Hugh B Urban by Hugh B. Urban 9780520230620, 9780520236561, 9781417525539, 0520230620, 0520236564, 1417525533 instant download after payment.

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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