ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
0
vikramjain@sanctumbooks.com
×
x
x
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
x
ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
Home:
Subjects:
Hinduism
Sociology & Anthropology
x
Front Cover
Back Cover
The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions
Authors:
Carola E. Lorea
,
Rohit Singh (editors)
ISBN:
9789395474115
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
380 with 31 b/w illustrations
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
656 grams
Price:
INR
2795
2516.00
eBook available at:
Amazon.in:
https://tinyurl.com/mstthz5z
Google Books:
https://tinyurl.com/2vjfw67u
Kobo:
https://tinyurl.com/47fjpwms
About the Book
Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.
This is the first collection of essays to approach the topic of Tantric Studies from the vantage point of ethnography and lived religion, moving beyond the centrality of written texts and giving voice to the everyday life and livelihoods of a multitude of Tantric actors. Bringing together a team of international scholars whose contributions range across diverse communities and traditions in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region, the book connects distant shores of Tantric scholarship and lived Tantric practices. The contributors unpack Tantra’s relationship to the body, ritual performance, sexuality, secrecy, power hierarchies, death, magic, and healing, while doing so with vigilant sensitivity to decolonization and the ethics of fieldwork. Through diverse ethnographies of Tantra and attention to lived experiences and life stories, the book challenges normative definitions of Tantra and maps the variety of Tantric traditions, providing comparative perspectives on Tantric societies across regions and religious backgrounds. The accessible tone of the ethnographic case studies makes this an ideal book for undergraduate or graduate audiences working on the topic of Tantra.
About the Authors
Carola E. Lorea
Carola E. Lorea is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She is the author of
Folklore, Religion, and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation
.
Rohit Singh
Rohit Singh is Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Greensboro.
Editorial Reviews
“
The Ethnography of Tantra
is valuable to scholars as a model of different applications of ethnography.”
—
Nova Religio
“This is a superb and truly refreshing contribution to the study of Tantra and religion more broadly. As the volume makes clear, Tantric studies have tended to focus on texts, history, and esoteric practices without contextualizing these in everyday life. By focusing on ethnography, this volume is an excellent intervention to those more abstract, textual, historical, idealized, exotified, and often problematic depictions of Tantra.”
—Lisa I. Knight, author of
Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh
Customer Reviews
Books of related interest
Hinduism Against Caste
Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethic...
After The Last Ship: A Post-colonial Reconstructio...
Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbea...
Racism in Indian Country
Introducing Hindu Worldviews: Tradition, Transitio...
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Fem...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 1: Durgā’s Transformati...
Tsunami in Kerala, India: Long-Term Psychological ...
Rāma Jāmadagnya as Symptom and Symbol of Brahmin I...
काश्मीर शिवाद्वयवाद की मूल अवधारणाएँ (द्वितीय संशो...
Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facil...
The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and P...
The Guardian of the Hills: Devata Culture and Livi...
The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the...
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms: Migration, Kinship, and...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 1: Durgā’s Transformati...
Automata: The Power of AI Integrated with Advanced...
Origin and Growth of Satī in Early Medieval India:...
The Yoga of Nonseparation: Addressing Yoga’s Deepe...
Life at a Distance: Medicine and Nationalism in In...
Indian Villages between Tradition and Transformati...
Scientific diasporas as development partners: Skil...
Hindu India: Another Approach to its Multiflorous ...
Open Space Planning in India (Schweizer Asiatische...
Lived Religion, Representation, and Sikh Identity
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
Painting Stories: Lives and Legacies from an India...
Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic P...
Global Perspectives in Environmental Adult Educati...
The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency – Hybrid...
Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping H...
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia: ...
South Asian Technospaces
Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries: Portuguese Conte...
The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy unde...
The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beau...
Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in...
The Path of Desire: Living Tantra in Northeast Ind...
Caste-Communal-Politics Nexus in Higher Education ...
The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beau...
Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile: The Lord’s Hint of Laughter ...
Negotiating Historical Change Hindu Style
Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolit...
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglement...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 2: History, Myths, Wors...
International Students at University: Understandin...
The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in T...
South Asian Technospaces - Hardcover
Introduction to the Tantrāloka: A Study in Structu...
Brothers and Sisters in India: A Study of Urban Ad...
Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material ...
Singing the Himalayan Crossroads: Traditional Song...
The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the B...
काश्मीर शिवाद्वयवाद की मूल अवधारणाएँ (द्वितीय संशो...
Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality i...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
Parasites, Worms, and the Human Body in Religion a...
A Self-Study: Being a White Psychologist in an Ind...
Across the Color Line: Indians, Blacks, and Landsc...
Legislating Indian Country: Significant Milestones...
Chinese Calcuttawallah: Articulating a Diaspora Et...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, a...
Seven Saktis: An Ancient Force is Re-Awakening in ...
Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient In...
Sacred Sovereignty: Kingship, Heritage, and Politi...
European and Asian Sustainable Towns: New Towns an...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 2: History, Myths, Wors...
The Purāṇic Condition: Textual Identity, Transform...
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Onscreen/Offscreen
Motilal Tejawat: Life and Work
The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life S...
The Life of Shariʿa: A Comparative Anthropology of...
ADD REVIEW
Review Title
Review
Reviewer Name
Email