Definitional Transgression, or the Revenge of the Vernacular in Hindu Tantric Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4299824
AutoresMark Elmore (University of California, Davis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen1
Número6
Páginas752-767
Fecha de publicación2007-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00041.x
OpenAlexW2056040272
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas31

Until recently the concerns of Sanskritists, esotericists, and philosophers have dominated the academic study of Hindu tantra. Now scholars increasingly focus on ritual practice, living traditions, and vernacular texts. These new concerns have radically recast how Hindu tantra and its impact on South Asian history are visualized. Where before scholars represented Hindu tantra as an elite discourse with little social impact, now many understand it as the warp on which South Asian history was woven

Art · Elite · Hinduism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · South asia · Tantra · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies