Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion - Hardcover

Geoffrey Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 812082752X ISBN 13: 9788120827523

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass, 2010

Synopsis

Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Budhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samule adopts an historically and textually informed anthropoliogical approach, seeking to locate and undrstand religion in its social and cultural context. The question of the relation between 'popular' (folk, domestic, village, monastic) religion and elite (Literary, textual, monastic) religion forms a recurring theme through these studies.

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About the Author:

Geoffrey Samuel is a specialist in the anthropology of Buddhist societies, particularly those of the Tibet and the Himalayas. He has also researched and published on anthropological theory, medical anthropology, ethnomusicology, and new rigious movements in Western societies. He has worked at the university of Newcastle, Australia where he is currently Professor of Anthropology, since 1978, with the exception of three years as Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 812082752X
• ISBN 13: 9788120827523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 394