Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 372 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520230620
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0520236564
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0520936892
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1597349321
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1282359614
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1417525533
,
9780520230620
,
9780520236561
,
9780520936898
,
9781597349321
,
9781282359611
,
9781417525539
Content:
Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be
Content:
Cover; Contents; 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-366) and index
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Urban, Hugh B Tantra Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003
Language:
English
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