The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality, and the Politics of South Asian Studies by Hugh B. Urban

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

Hugh B. Urban

250 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 wa...

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