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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9780520247765
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:336
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9781845118730
Focusing on one of the oldest and most important Tantric traditions, based in Assam, northeast India, Hugh B. Urban shows that Tantra is less about optimal sexual pleasure than about harnessing the divine power of the goddess that flows alike through the cosmos...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:250
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9781845118747
Focusing on one of the oldest and most important Tantric traditions, based in Assam, northeast India, Hugh B. Urban shows that Tantra is less about optimal sexual pleasure than about harnessing the divine power of the goddess that flows alike through the cosmos...more details Format:Paperback Pages:250
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Pablo Urbanyi;Hugh Hazelton
ISBN:9780889628380
Silver was acclaimed as "a notable post-modern Tarzan" in Spanish reviews. And, in French reviews, Pablo Urbanyi has been compared to Julian Barnes and Tom Sharpe. The novel is inspired by a short story by Franz Kafka "A report for an Academy" in which an ape captured for a circus learns to speak...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9780520230620
Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:365
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9780520236561
Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India...more details Format:Paperback Pages:388
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9780691146089
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:268
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9780742552470
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:229
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Hugh B Urban
ISBN:9780742552463
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:229