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Tantra : Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion /
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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.