Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins
Redaktion: Acri, Andrea; Rosati, Paolo E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting magical and shamanic phenomena associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. It will be of interest to South Asian religions, Tantric traditions, and Asian and global folk religion, shamanism, and magic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000686449
• Artikelnr.: 65649783

Autorenporträt

Andrea Acri is tenured Assistant Professor in Tantric Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, PSL University) in Paris, France. His publications include the monograph Dharma P¿tañjala (2011), as well as various edited volumes, including Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia (2016). His main research and teaching interests are ¿aiva and Buddhist Tantric traditions, Indian philosophy, Yoga studies, Sanskrit and Old Javanese philology, and the comparative religious history of South and Southeast Asia from the premodern to the contemporary period, with special emphasis on connected histories and intra-Asian maritime transfers. Paolo E. Rosati received his PhD in Asian and African Studies from 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy. He has published a double special issue on Tantra for Religions of South Asia (14/1-2) in 2020, and several contributions on the yoni cult at K¿m¿khy¿. His current research focuses on magic, memory, and cultural identity in postcolonial Tantric contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1. More Pre-Tantric Sources of Tantrism: Skulls and Skull-Cups; 2. Charnel Ground Items,
m
nikas, and the Question of the Magical Substratum of the Early Tantras; 3. Shamans and Bh
ta T
ntrikas: A Shared Genealogy?; 4. Female Gäe
a or Independent Deity? Tracing the Background of the Elephant-faced Goddess in Mediaeval
aiva Tantric Traditions; 5. Crossing the Boundaries of Sex, Blood, and Magic in the Tantric Cult of K
m
khy
; 6. 'Let us Now Invoke the Three Celestial Lights of Fire, Sun and Moon into Ourselves': Magic or Everyday Practice? Revising Existentiality for an Emic Understanding of
r
vidy
; 7. Narrative Folklore of Khy
from Tantra to Popular Beliefs: Supernatural Experiences at the Margins among Newar Communities in the Kathmandu Valley; 8. Magical Tantra in Bengal, Bali, and Java: From Pi
ca T
ntrikas to Balians and Dukuns; 9. Tantrism and the Weretiger Lore of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia