Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Hugh B. Urban
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The category "Tantra" is a basic and familiar one today in the vocabulary of most scholars of religious and generally considered one of the most important and controversial forms of Asian religion.
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"A powerful book demonstrating how the Western study of Hinduism, Indian religious texts, and American popular culture have become related to one another in exceptionally intimate and creative ways. Urban refuses to narrate yet another postcolonial narrative about the evil West, producing instead a subtle and much more accurate reading of the cultural encounter that produced, intentionally or not, a new form of erotic mysticism-Western Tantra."--Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
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- Title Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
- Author Hugh B. Urban
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 388
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-10-14
- ISBN 9780520236561 / 0520236564
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.88 x 0.97 in (22.91 x 14.94 x 2.46 cm)
- Reading level 1600
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Religious Orientation: Hindu
- Library of Congress subjects Tantrism, Tantric Buddhism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002073270
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.551
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- Choice, 06/01/2004, Page 1901
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