Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion

by Hugh B. Urban

Book Overview

A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life-Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236564
• ISBN13: 9780520236561
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"