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The Path of Desire
- Living Tantra in Northeast India
Engelsk Paperback
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The Path of Desire
- Living Tantra in Northeast India
Engelsk Paperback

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A provocative study of contemporary Tantra as a dynamic living tradition.   Tantra, one of the most important religious currents in South Asia, is often misrepresented as little more than ritualized sex. Through a mixture of ethnography and history, Hugh B. Urban reveals a dynamic living tradition behind the sensationalist stories. Urban shows that Tantric desire goes beyond the erotic, encompassing such quotidian experiences as childbearing and healing. He traces these holistic desires through a series of unique practices: institutional Tantra centered on gurus and esoteric rituals; public Tantra marked by performance and festival; folk Tantra focused on magic and personal well-being; and popular Tantra imagined in fiction, film, and digital media. The result is a provocative new description of Hindu Tantra that challenges us to approach religion as something always entwined with politics and culture, thoroughly entangled with ordinary needs and desires.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780226831121
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226831124
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Udg. Dato:
27 mar 2024
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
27 mar 2024
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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