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33 produkter
Magia Sexualis
Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism
Inbunden, 2006
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716 kr
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Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic - the use of sex as a source of magical power - emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual …
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
Häftad, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
444 kr
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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, …
Church of Scientology
A History of a New Religion
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been …
Songs of Ecstasy
Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal
Häftad, 2001
686 kr
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This book offers the first English translation of a body of highly esoteric, mystical poetry and songs associated with the Khartabhajas, a Bengali sect devoted to Tantrism. The period from the late 18th to the early 19th century, during which these lyrics were written, was an era of change, …
The Economics of Ecstasy
Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal
Inbunden, 2001
3063 kr
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This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals. Urban looks closely at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas, who flourished at the turn of the …
Songs of Ecstasy
Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal
E-bok, 2001
437 kr
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This book offers the first English translation of a body of highly esoteric, mystical poetry and songs associated with the Khartabhajas, a Bengali sect devoted to Tantrism. The period from the late 18th to the early 19th century, during which these lyrics were written, was an era of change, …
Economics of Ecstasy
Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal
E-bok, 2001
2256 kr
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This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals. Urban looks closely at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas, who flourished at the turn of the …
Secrecy
Silence, Power, and Religion
Inbunden, 2021
1143 kr
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The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer …
Secrecy
Silence, Power, and Religion
Häftad, 2021
324 kr
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The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer …
Secrecy
Silence, Power, and Religion
E-bok, 2021
530 kr
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The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer …
Path of Desire
Living Tantra in Northeast India
Inbunden, 2024
857 kr
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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 …
Path of Desire
Living Tantra in Northeast India
E-bok, 2024
507 kr
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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 …
Path of Desire
Living Tantra in Northeast India
Häftad, 2024
265 kr
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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 …
Still Seeking the Magic Mushroom
Fungi, Pharmaceuticals, and Mysticism Without Religion
Inbunden, 2026
1080 kr
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A sweeping cultural history of our yearning for psychedelics to free us from both modern life and traditional religion.In 1957, Life Magazine published an article called “Seeking the Magic Mushroom” about a Mexican healing ritual centered on an obscure psychedelic: Psilocybe mushrooms. Readers …
Still Seeking the Magic Mushroom
Fungi, Pharmaceuticals, and Mysticism Without Religion
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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A sweeping cultural history of our yearning for psychedelics to free us from both modern life and traditional religion.In 1957, Life Magazine published an article called “Seeking the Magic Mushroom” about a Mexican healing ritual centered on an obscure psychedelic: Psilocybe mushrooms. Readers …
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy
Av Hugh B. Urban, Paul Christopher Johnson
Inbunden, 2022
3793 kr
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Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been …
Tantra
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
Häftad, 2003
393 kr
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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life - Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within …
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
Inbunden, 2015
651 kr
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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, …
Zorba the Buddha
Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
Inbunden, 2016
823 kr
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Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931-1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the "sex guru" and the "Rolls Royce guru," who …
Zorba the Buddha
Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
Häftad, 2016
264 kr
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Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931-1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the "sex guru" and the "Rolls Royce guru," who …
Magia Sexualis
Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism
E-bok, 2006
1230 kr
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Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic—the use of sex as a source of magical power—emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual magic …
Tantra
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
E-bok, 2003
520 kr
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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within …
Zorba the Buddha
Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
E-bok, 2016
433 kr
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Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931–1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the “sex guru” and the “Rolls Royce guru,” who …
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
E-bok, 2015
576 kr
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New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, …
Secrets of the Kingdom
Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration
Inbunden, 2007
1561 kr
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The presidency of George W. Bush contains, at its very heart, a fundamental paradox and apparent contradiction. On the one hand, this is the most outspokenly religious president in U.S. history — a man who claims to be called by God to lead our country. Yet at the same time, this is also the most …
Secrets of the Kingdom
Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration
Häftad, 2007
516 kr
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The presidency of George W. Bush contains, at its very heart, a fundamental paradox and apparent contradiction. On the one hand, this is the most outspokenly religious president in U.S. history — a man who claims to be called by God to lead our country. Yet at the same time, this is also the most …
Power of Tantra
Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
E-bok, 2009
412 kr
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In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved …
Power of Tantra
Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
E-bok, 2009
412 kr
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In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved …
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy
Av Paul Christopher Johnson, Hugh B. Urban
E-bok, 2022
830 kr
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Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been …
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy
Av Paul Christopher Johnson, Hugh B. Urban
E-bok, 2022
822 kr
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Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been …
