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- catalog abstract ""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"--Publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b12986963.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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"--Publisher's description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-366) and index.".
- catalog description "List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : diagnosing the "disease" of Tantra -- 1. The golden age of the vedas and the dark age of Kali : tantrism, orientalism and the Bengal renaissance -- 2. Sacrificing white goats to the goddess : Tantra and political violence in colonial India -- 3. India's darkest heart : Tantra in the literary imagination -- 4. Deodorized Tantra : sex, scandal, secrecy and censorship in the works of John Woodroffe and Swami Vivekananda -- 5. Religion for the age of darkness : Tantra and the history of religions in the twentieth century -- 6. The cult of ecstasy : meldings of East and West in the new age of Tantra -- Conclusion : reimagining Tantra in contemporary discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 372 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520230620 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520236564 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "294.5/514 21".
- catalog subject "BL1283.84 .U73 2003".
- catalog subject "Tantric Buddhism.".
- catalog subject "Tantrism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : diagnosing the "disease" of Tantra -- 1. The golden age of the vedas and the dark age of Kali : tantrism, orientalism and the Bengal renaissance -- 2. Sacrificing white goats to the goddess : Tantra and political violence in colonial India -- 3. India's darkest heart : Tantra in the literary imagination -- 4. Deodorized Tantra : sex, scandal, secrecy and censorship in the works of John Woodroffe and Swami Vivekananda -- 5. Religion for the age of darkness : Tantra and the history of religions in the twentieth century -- 6. The cult of ecstasy : meldings of East and West in the new age of Tantra -- Conclusion : reimagining Tantra in contemporary discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Tantra : sex, secrecy, politics, and power in the study of religion / Hugh B. Urban.".
- catalog type "text".