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Hugh B Urban is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. One of the leading western scholars of Tantric religion, Professor Urban is the author of several books which include Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (2006), Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion (2003) and Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Bengal (2001).
List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction Tantra and the Politics of South Asian Studies | p. 1 |
Matrix of Power: The Ś&abar;kta P&ibar;&tbdot;has and the Sacred Landscape of Tantra | p. 31 |
Blood for the Goddess: Animal Sacrifice and Divine Menstruation | p. 51 |
Goddess of Power: Tantra, Kingship, and Sacrifice in South Asian History | p. 73 |
The Sacrifice of Desire: Sexual Rites and the Secret Sacrifice | p. 99 |
What About the Woman? Gender Politics and the Interpretation of Women in Tantra | p. 125 |
The Power of God in a Dark Valley: Reform, Colonialism, and the Decline of Tantra in South Asia | p. 147 |
The Power of the Goddess in a Postcolonial Age: Transformations of Tantra in the twentieth and twenty-first Centuries | p. 165 |
Conclusions Tantra and the End of Imperialism: Beyond "Deep Orientalism" and "Third-Worldism" | p. 187 |
Notes | p. 197 |
Select Bibliography | p. 235 |
Index | p. 245 |
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