Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort by Child, Louise

Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754658047)

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Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort by Child, Louise

Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort

$200.00
Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort by Child, Louise

Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise Child applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material. She suggests ways in which dreams and visionary experiences (including those related to the 'subtle body') play an important and previously under-explored role in tantric understandings of the consort relationship.

Author: Louise Child
ISBN-10: 075465804X
ISBN-13: 9780754658047
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2007
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Louise Child
By Louise Child
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Louise Child is Lecturer in Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

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