The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality, and the Politics of South Asian Studies

by Hugh B. Urban

In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved example of the worst tendencies of the so-called 'Indian mind': a pathological mixture of sensuality and religion that prompted the decline of modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184511874X
• ISBN13: 9781845118747
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"