The Path of Desire : Living Tantra in Northeast India Hardback
by Hugh B. Urban
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 36 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:27/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780226831107
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 36 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:27/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226831107