sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions Urban, Hugh B Primary Author mixed material bibliography New Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2007 en English

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xvi, 13,5 cm 21,3 cm, 372 pg 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. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Hugh B. Urban Religion Sex Politics 294.5514 9788120829329 PERPUSTAKAAN UHN I GUSTI BAGUS SUGRIWA DENPASAR Online Public Access Catalog 294.5514 Urb-t B033526/23 Perpustakaan Pascasarjana 294.5514 Urb-t c.1 Tantra%252C_Sex%252C_Secrecy%252C_Politics_and_Power_in_the_Study_of_Religion.jpg.jpg 4418 2023-11-10 09:04:14 2023-11-10 09:05:53 machine generated