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The Path of Desire : Living Tantra in Northeast India, Paperback / softback Book

The Path of Desire : Living Tantra in Northeast India Paperback / softback

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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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