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The Path of Desire

- Living Tantra in Northeast India
Af: Hugh B. Urban Engelsk Hardback

The Path of Desire

- Living Tantra in Northeast India
Af: Hugh B. Urban Engelsk Hardback
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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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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: 280
ISBN-13: 9780226831107
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0226831108
Kategori: Hinduisme
Udg. Dato: 27 mar 2024
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 27 mar 2024
Forfatter(e): Hugh B. Urban
Forfatter(e) Hugh B. Urban


Kategori Hinduisme


ISBN-13 9780226831107


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 280


Udgave


Længde 23mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 27 mar 2024


Oplagsdato 27 mar 2024


Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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