Tantric Revisionings

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Tantric Revisionings is written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351896172 (ISBN 10) and 9781351896177 (ISBN 13).

Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to locate and understand religion in its social and cultural context. The question of the relation between 'popular' (folk, domestic, village, 'shamanic') religion and elite (literary, textual, monastic) religion forms a recurring theme through these studies. Six chapters have not been previously published; the previously published studies included are in publications which are difficult to locate outside major specialist libraries.