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Tantra

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

by Hugh B. Urban

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

The category "Tantra" is a basic and familiar one today in the vocabulary of most scholars of religious and generally considered one of the most important and controversial forms of Asian religion.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Asian esoteric and internal traditions.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Tantrism”. Retained metadata contains “tantra” in the title, “tantra” in the description, “Tantrism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • Tantrism· via Open Library
    • tantra· in title
    • tantra· in description
    • Tantrism· in subject
    • tantra· in edition title

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Editions

Open Library reports 6 editions; 1 cataloged here.

sex, secrecy politics, and power in the study of religions

Open Library record

2003University of California PressEnglish
  • 9780520230620
  • 9780520236561
  • 0520230620
  • 0520236564
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Subjects

2 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL5962859W
Edition coverage
Representative plus work aggregates
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