TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strube,Julian
TI  - Global tantra: religion, science, and nationalism in colonial modernity 
T2  - AAR religion culture and history
SN  - 9780197667521 (Hb)
AV  - BL1283.83 
U1  - 294.5514 S927G 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Tantrism
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Science
KW  - Political science
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Beyond introducing the subject matter and critically surveying the state of scholarship, this introduction offers a substantial theoretical and methodological elucidation of the book's approach that is also relevant for readers not strictly interested in the specialized subject. Combining perspectives from religious studies, global history, South Asian studies, and the study of esotericism, the foundations of global religious history are discussed both in abstraction and in light of the source material. This especially considers historiographical challenges such as (post)colonialism, Eurocentrism, or Orientalism, as well as issues such as the blurry meaning of "global connections" and differentiations between the global, regional, and local. Leading themes such as the contested meaning of tradition, revival, reform, and modernity are scrutinized, as are the relationship and meanings of religion, science, esotericism, and nationalism that remain the subject of scholarly debate. Global religious history makes proposals for resolving such debates by eliding disciplinary boundaries"--
ER  -