An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival - D.E. Osto

An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival

Contemporary Nondual Śaivism

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
212 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-40047-1 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book analyses the contemporary global revival of Nondual Saivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy.
This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual Saivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy. Providing a historical overview of the seminal people and groups responsible for the revival, the book compares the tradition’s medieval Indian origins to modern forms, which are situated within distinctively contemporary religious, economic and technological contexts.

The author bridges the current gap in the literature between "insider" (emic) and "outsider” (etic) perspectives by examining modern Nondual Saivism from multiple standpoints as both a critical scholar of religion and an empathetic participant-observer. The book explores modern Nondual Saivism in relation to recent scholarly debates concerning the legitimacy of New Age consumptive spirituality, the global spiritual marketplace and the contemporary culture of narcissism. It also analyzes the dark side of the revived tradition, and investigates contemporary teachers accused of sexual abuse and illegal financial activities in relation to unique features of Nondual Saivism’s theosophy and modern scholarship on new religious movements (NRMs) and cults. This book shows that, although Kashmir Saivism has been adopted by certain teachers and groups to market their own brand of "High Tantra," some contemporary practitioners have remained true to the system’s fundamental tenets and teach authentic (albeit modern) forms of Nondual Saivism.

This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of religion and Asian philosophies, especially South Asian, tantric, neo-tantric and yoga philosophies, alternative and New Age spiritualities, religion and consumerism, and NRMs and cults.

Winner of the inaugural 2021 New Zealand Asia Society Book Award, second prize.

D.E. Osto is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (2016), and Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism: The Ga¿¿avyuha-sutra (Routledge, 2008).

Introduction, 1. Saiva Tantra and the origins of Nondual Saiva Theosophy, 2. Nondual Saiva Theosophy, 3. Swami Lakshman Joo and his legacy, 4. Swami Muktananda and the Siddha Yoga legacy, 5. The scholar-practitioners, 6. Consuming Nondual Saivism, 7. Caveat Emptor: power, sex and money in contemporary Nondual Saivism, 8. Recovering Nondual Saivism: an autoethnography, Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 308 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
ISBN-10 1-032-40047-1 / 1032400471
ISBN-13 978-1-032-40047-1 / 9781032400471
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