{"product_id":"9780226831107","title":"The Path of Desire : Living Tantra in Northeast India","description":"\u003cp\u003eA provocative study of contemporary Tantra as a dynamic living tradition.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e Tantra, one of the most important religious currents in South Asia, is often misrepresented as little more than ritualized sex. Through a mixture of ethnography and history, Hugh B. Urban reveals a dynamic living tradition behind the sensationalist stories. Urban shows that Tantric desire goes beyond the erotic, encompassing such quotidian experiences as childbearing and healing. He traces these holistic desires through a series of unique practices: institutional Tantra centered on gurus and esoteric rituals; public Tantra marked by performance and festival; folk Tantra focused on magic and personal well-being; and popular Tantra imagined in fiction, film, and digital media. The result is a provocative new description of Hindu Tantra that challenges us to approach religion as something always entwined with politics and culture, thoroughly entangled with ordinary needs and desires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52258191180087,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":536.38,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780226831107-1.jpg?v=1783099244","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780226831107","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}