Julian Strube is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. His work focuses on the relationship between religion, science, and politics since the nineteenth century from a global history perspective, concentrating on exchanges between Indian and Western intellectuals. His publications include Socialism, Catholicism, and Occultism in Nineteenth Century France, New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (with Egil Asprem), and Theosophy across Boundaries (with Hans Martin Krämer).

Global Tantra is an important and original book that shows the complex exchanges and entanglements between East and West that helped shape the modern category of "Tantra." Strube sheds new light on the key role played by movements such as the Theosophical Society and authors such as John Woodroffe and his Indian collaborators. The book should be of real interest both to general readers and to scholars of religious studies, South Asian studies, globalization studies, and other disciplines.

• Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Why a Global Religious History? 1. The Bengali Intervention 2. Theosophy in Bengal 3. The Contested Science of Yoga 4. Reformism and Spiritualist Perspectives on Tantra 5. Revivalism and Theosophy 6. Shivachandra Vidyarnava 7. Tantra and Nationalism 8. Arthur Avalon and Tantrik Occultism 9. Conclusion: What Global Religious History Could Offer Bibliography

Julian Strube is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. His work focuses on the relationship between religion, science, and politics since the nineteenth century from a global history perspective, concentrating on exchanges between Indian and Western intellectuals. His publications include Socialism, Catholicism, and Occultism in Nineteenth Century France, New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (with Egil Asprem), and Theosophy across Boundaries (with Hans Martin Krämer).

Global Tantra is an important and original book that shows the complex exchanges and entanglements between East and West that helped shape the modern category of "Tantra." Strube sheds new light on the key role played by movements such as the Theosophical Society and authors such as John Woodroffe and his Indian collaborators. The book should be of real interest both to general readers and to scholars of religious studies, South Asian studies, globalization studies, and other disciplines.

• Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Why a Global Religious History? 1. The Bengali Intervention 2. Theosophy in Bengal 3. The Contested Science of Yoga 4. Reformism and Spiritualist Perspectives on Tantra 5. Revivalism and Theosophy 6. Shivachandra Vidyarnava 7. Tantra and Nationalism 8. Arthur Avalon and Tantrik Occultism 9. Conclusion: What Global Religious History Could Offer Bibliography

Julian Strube is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. His work focuses on the relationship between religion, science, and politics since the nineteenth century from a global history perspective, concentrating on exchanges between Indian and Western intellectuals. His publications include Socialism, Catholicism, and Occultism in Nineteenth Century France, New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (with Egil Asprem), and Theosophy across Boundaries (with Hans Martin Krämer).

Global Tantra is an important and original book that shows the complex exchanges and entanglements between East and West that helped shape the modern category of "Tantra." Strube sheds new light on the key role played by movements such as the Theosophical Society and authors such as John Woodroffe and his Indian collaborators. The book should be of real interest both to general readers and to scholars of religious studies, South Asian studies, globalization studies, and other disciplines.

• Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Why a Global Religious History? 1. The Bengali Intervention 2. Theosophy in Bengal 3. The Contested Science of Yoga 4. Reformism and Spiritualist Perspectives on Tantra 5. Revivalism and Theosophy 6. Shivachandra Vidyarnava 7. Tantra and Nationalism 8. Arthur Avalon and Tantrik Occultism 9. Conclusion: What Global Religious History Could Offer Bibliography