Tantra between Tradition and Modernity
Julian Strube, Dr.
Tantra between Tradition and Modernity

Urban, Hugh B., “Tantra, American Style: From the Path of Power to the Yoga of Sex,” in: Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond, István Keul (ed.), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2012, 457–494.

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What is Tantra: New Age

If you need to contact dr. Strube, his email is: julian.strube@univie.ac.at


Reading assignment:

Urban, Hugh B., “Tantra, American Style: From the Path of Power to the Yoga of Sex,” in: Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond, István Keul (ed.), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2012, 457–494.

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https://is.muni.cz/el/phil/jaro2022/RLBcB406/124658037/Urban__Hugh__2012__Tantra__American_Style.pdf

What is Tantra: Historical

Assigned reading:

Hatley, Shaman, “Tantra (Overview),” in: Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Hinduism and Tribal Religions, forthcoming.

Arthur Avalon

Assigned reading:

Taylor, Kathleen, “Arthur Avalon: The Creation of a Legendary Orientalist,” in: Myth and Mythmaking: Continuous Evolution in Indian Tradition, Leslie, Julia (Hg.), London/New York: Routledge 1996, 144-164.

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https://is.muni.cz/el/phil/jaro2022/RLBcB406/124658037/Taylor__Kathleen__1996__Arthur_Avalon_The_Creation_of_a_Legendary_Orientalist.pdf

The Bengali Intervention


Assigned reading:

Strube, Julian, “Tantra as Experimental Science in the Works of John Woodroffe,” in: Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900, Yves Mühlematter & Helmut Zander (eds.), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2021, 132–160.

Shivachandra Vidyarnava

Assigned reading:

Strube, Julian, Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity, New York: Oxford University Press 2022, 163-186.

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https://is.muni.cz/el/phil/jaro2022/RLBcB406/124658037/Strube__Julian__2022__Global_Tantra__163-212_rvpzsdfd.pdf

Tantra and Nationalism

Reading assignment:

Strube, Julian, Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity, New York: Oxford University Press 2022, 187-212.

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https://is.muni.cz/el/phil/jaro2022/RLBcB406/124658037/Strube__Julian__2022__Global_Tantra__163-212.pdf

Traditions of Learning in Bengal

Reading assignement:

Hatley, Shaman. “Mapping the Esoteric Body in the Islamic Tantric Yoga,” in: History of Religions 46, no. 4 (2007): 351–68.

Tantra and Sexuality

Reading assignment:

White, David Gordon. Kiss of the Yogini: 'Tantric Sex' in Its South Asian Contexts, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2003, 1-26.


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https://is.muni.cz/el/phil/jaro2022/RLBcB406/124658037/White__David_Gordon__2006__Kiss_of_the_Yogini__1-26.pdf

Theosophy and Yoga

Reading assignment:

Baier, Karl, “Theosophical Orientalism and the Structures of Intercultural Transfer: Annotations on the Appropriation of the Cakras in Early Theosophy,” in: Theosophical Appropriations: Esotericism, Kabbalah, and the Transformation of Traditions, Julie Chajes & Boaz Huss (eds.), Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press 2016, 309–354.

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https://is.muni.cz/el/phil/jaro2022/RLBcB406/124658037/Baier__Karl__2016__Theosophical_Orientalism_and_the_Structures.pdf

Occultism and Tantra

Reading assignment:

Urban, Hugh B. Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism, Berkeley: University of California Press 2006, 81-108.