Lorea / Singh The Ethnography of Tantra

Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9485-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lorea, Carola Erika

Singh, Rohit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking Tantra through Ethnography
Carola E. Lorea and Rohit Singh

Part I: On Materiality and Mediation: Lived Practices of Texts, Objects, and Media

1. An Ethnography of Tantra in the Western Himalayas: The Material Substance of Practical Rituals
William S. Sax

2. Observing Participation, Transgressing Hermeneutics: Bali’s Tantric Script Practices and the Limits of Participant Observation
Annette Hornbacher

3. The Conch as a Tantric Artifact: Metaphysics of a Number and the Twirled Lives of Text and Practice
Sukanya Sarbadhikary

4. WhatsApp Bagalamukhi! Social Life and Experiences of a Tantric Goddess
Sravana Borkataky-Varma

Part II: Embodiment, Identity, and Experience: Conversations with Tantric Livelihoods

5. Folk Tantra and Healing: An Ethnography of Traditional Healers in the Darjeeling Hills and Sikkim
Jarrod Hyam

6. Songs for Siddhi: An Ethnographic Analysis of Baul Fakiri Sadhana
Keith Edward Cantú

7. Serving the Divine Element in Humans: Everyday (Tantric) Vaisnavism and What Begging Means to Bauls
Kristin Hanssen

Part III: Institutions and Individuals in the Making of Tantric Traditions: To Be or Become Tantric

8. The Cremation Ground, the Battlefield, and the Path of Compassion; or, What Makes the Fabric of an Individual’s Tantric Encounter?
Nike-Ann Schröder

9. The Spectrum of Eclecticism and Conservatism within Kerala’s Tantric Traditions: A Case Study of Meppat Sampradaya
Maciej Karasinski

10. Tantric Lives in Bengal and Bali: Toward a Comparative Ethnography
June McDaniel

Afterword
Geoffrey Samuel
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carola E. Lorea is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tubingen in Germany. She is the author of Folklore, Religion, and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation. Rohit Singh is Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Greensboro.