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Author Dimock, Edward C.

Title The place of the hidden moon : erotic mysticism in the Vaiṣṇava-sahajiyā cult of Bengal / Edward C. Dimock, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Wendy Doniger
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description xxx, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword, by Wendy Doniger -- Note to the 1989 Edition -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Vaisnava-sahajiya Synthesis -- 2. Further Historical Observations -- 3. Castle, Women, and the Sahajiya Movement -- 4. The Ideal Man in Society -- 5. Man and Super-man: Physical and Metaphysical Bases for the Sahajiya Sadhana -- 6. Principles of Sadhana -- 7. A Hint of Immortality -- 8. The Bauls of Bengal -- Bibliography -- Index
Analysis Mysticism Hinduism
Sahajiyā
Sex Religious aspects Vaishnavism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index
Subject Mysticism -- Hinduism.
Sahajiyā.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Vaishnavism
LC no. 89036881
ISBN 0226152375 (paperback: alk. paper)