author: hugh b urban

Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism

... left-hand Tantra. Evola had long admired much about Hindu re- ligion and culture. In Evola's eyes, the Hindu social system of class (varna) and caste was the ideal embodiment of a genuine “Traditional” social, po- litical, and economic ...

New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America

... Witchcraft for Tomorrow. Blaine, WA: Phoenix, 1978. NOTES TO CHAPTER 8 1. “Overview,” Starwood Festival, July 8–14, 2014, www.rosencomet.com/starwood/2014/. 2. Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshippers ...

The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies

... left-hand Tantra. As Kooij notes, the K ̄alik ̄a Pur ̄an.a wants to “accept that heterodox cults are really worth while, although it remains true to the general tendency found in the Pur ̄an.as to stimulate the performance of the old ...

Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion

... Marc Headley, Nancy Many, Gerry Armstrong, Leah Remini, and others, have also accused the church of shocking physical abuse and human rights violations in its disciplinary program called the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF).100 Many ...

New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America

... Cream of the earth And was here first And some devils prevent this from being known.15 However, perhaps even more hip-hop artists have been members of or sympathetic to the Five Percenters, including all members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Big ...

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy

... Secret Societies and Social Structures , " Social Forces 60 ( 1 ) : 133–210 . FBI ... FF9-13 , " Affidavits , " content / uploads / 2013 / 10 / FF - 9-13.pdf ... Secrets , Gossip , and Gods : The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé ...

Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism

"This book offers a fascinating account of the development of Western sexual magic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Path of Desire: Living Tantra in Northeast India

... Barbara Carrellas , Urban Tantra : Sacred Sex for the Twenty - First Century ( Berke- ley , CA : Ten Speed Press , 2017 ) . On New Age or Neo - Tantra , see Hugh B. Urban , Tantra : Sex , Secrecy , Politics and Power in the Study of ...

The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies

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 ...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (1928) is Professor and Head of the department of Linguistics at Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement

... Tantra: The Science of Tantra. DVD. Pune: Osho International Foundation ... Song of Saraha. Rockport, MA: Element, 1994. Osho-Rajneesh. Om Shantih Shantih ... download/osho-books/Indian_Mystics/The_True_ Name_Volume_1.pdf. . From Sex ...

The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion

... Marc Headley in his book Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology (Burbank, CA: BFG Books, 2009) and in Wright's article “The Apostate.” 25. See, among others, Melton, The Church of Scientology; Lewis, Scientology; and ...

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