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This Special Issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here, we present studies of the Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. Our intention is to show that the religious experience has long been an important part of Hinduism, and should not be dismissed or considered as irrelevant. As a body of scholarship, these articles refine our understanding of the range and variety of religious experience in Hinduism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors also show important new directions in the study of the third-largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers.

??kta tantra --- Bhakti --- prak?ti --- Nirguna Bhakti --- T?la --- pilgrimage --- Yoga S?tra --- ku??alin? --- ??nti --- modern Hinduism --- Yogas?tras --- Manasa --- shongshar --- being seen --- arts & religions --- tantra --- ammai --- sacred domesticity --- Hinduism --- Srividya --- India --- Vedanta --- Mahipati --- sam?dhi --- Bhagavad G?t? --- shankh --- Indian music --- Erlebnis --- Mariyamman --- Tukaram --- Santmat --- pluralism --- bhakti --- yoga --- I --- ?r? Vidy? --- Dhrupad --- seeing --- affliction --- Ramakrishna --- Tamil --- moral conduct --- tantric s?dhan? --- sa?yama --- medieval Sant tradition --- prayer --- Indian Religions --- meditation --- devotion --- saints --- yantra --- S??khya philosophy --- anta?kara?a --- Balaji --- ?akti --- not I --- Sants --- guru --- Khayal --- N?da-Brahman --- Gandhi --- possession --- mah?bh?va --- Sang?ta --- modern gurus --- Ganges --- poxes --- creativity --- Tantric Studies --- rain --- goddess --- trance --- brahman --- bh?va --- Erfahrung --- sacred sound --- G?yatr? mantra --- puru??rtha --- Sadhus --- Yoga --- conch --- William James --- dar?an --- S??khya --- agricultural field --- Bengali home --- puru?a --- Lakshmi --- Ethnography --- R?ga --- Ved?nta --- Patañjali --- religious experience --- K?rtan --- divine light and sound --- performance --- renunciation --- dhy?n --- Bhajan --- Rasa --- mok?a --- Hinduism. --- Experience (Religion) --- Religious experience --- Psychology, Religious --- Religions --- Brahmanism

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This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of religious and mystical ecstasy has declined in the modern West. June McDaniel examines how the search for ecstatic experience has migrated into such areas as war, terrorism, transgression, sexuality, drug use, and anti-institutional forms of spirituality. She argues that the loss of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects. She also proposes that the field of religious studies must go beyond criminalizing, trivializing and pathologizing ecstatic and mystical experiences. Both religious studies and theology need to take these states seriously as important aspects of lived human experience.

Psychology --- Religious studies --- Christian religion --- Comparative religion --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Veterinary medicine --- History --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- psychologie --- religie --- spiritualiteit --- geschiedenis

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The essays in this volume, written by specialists working in the field of tantric studies, attempt to trace processes of transformation and transfer that occurred in the history of tantra from around the seventh century and up to the present. The volume gathers contributions on South Asia, Tibet, China, Mongolia, Japan, North America, and Western Europe by scholars from various academic disciplines, who present ongoing research and encourage discussion on significant themes in the growing field of tantric studies. In addition to the extensive geographical and temporal range, the chapters of the volume cover a wide thematic area, which includes modern Bengali tantric practitioners, tantric ritual in medieval China, the South Asian cults of the mother goddesses, the way of Buddhism into Mongolia, and countercultural echoes of contemporary tantric studies.

Tantrism --- History --- Tantricism --- Tantrism, Hindu --- Hinduism --- Magic --- Mysticism --- History. --- Tantrism - History --- Tantrism - Asia --- Asian Religions. --- History of Religion. --- Tantra. --- Tantrism.