Christian Wedemeyer: 2 books
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism
History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within...
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing...