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100			_aUrban, Hugh B. _986581
245			_a Path of Desire: Living tantra in Northeast India
250			_a60th
260			_aChicago and London _bThe University of Chicago Press _c2024
300			_aviii, 272 p. : ill. _bIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aTantra, 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.
650			_aDesire -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism _9747535
650			_aFolk religion -- India -- Assam _9747536
650			_aTantrism -- India -- Assam _9747537
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